Recursively watch directories for changes

[vendion]

Is it possible to have watchgopher recursively watch a directory for changes? For example if I have the following directory structure:

/home/user/directory
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- /home/user/directory/subdir1
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- /home/user/directory/subdir2

and watchgopher is told to watch the parent directory when a file gets created in subdir1 then watchgopher will take the same action that it would for the parent. I know I can add the subdirectories to the json config file and have the actions all the same, but parent directory I am working with has a lot of subdirectories and I would constantly have to make changes to the configuration.

[mrnugget]

At the moment it is not possible to recursively watch a directory. The reason is that Watchgopher uses fsnotify (github.com/howeyc/fsnotify) to keep track of file changes and fsnotify itself doesn't support recursive watching. I didn't want to put that feature on top of fsnotify in watchgopher. If you want to hack on Watchgopher and add that feature: feel free to send a pull request, as I might not get around to it soon :)

Also check out this issue: howeyc/fsnotify#56 which contains a lot of useful information regarding that topic. Hint: os/notify is planned to be included in Go 1.4 and is based on howeyc/fsnotify.

[vendion]

Thanks for getting back to me, I did not realize that it was a limitation
in fsnotify. I have subscribed to that issue and hope to see it
implemented in either howeyc/fsnotiy or os/notify in 1.4.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Thorsten Ball [email protected]:

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