Get file that changed? about fswatch HOT 4 CLOSED

A bit of background: FSEvents do not track which file get changed, apparently for performance purposes, and delegates this work to the program, which is supposed to do the state change tracking itself (the rationale being that then program knows what to look for much better than a generic event framework)

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Not the case. See: https://github.com/evan/sinatra-jar/blob/master/vendor/fswatch.c#L31

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The kFSEventStreamCreateFlagFileEvents flag was added in OSX 10.7. Before that it was indeed not possible to track file changes.
However you might consider using this flag with care: it generates a lot of notifications.

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Hi @3cooper, as @evan and @Frizlab point out, the FSEvents API tells you which file has changed. The latest fswatch code already uses the kFSEventStreamCreateFlagFileEvents flag and gives you the information you need.

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