fswatch does not track newly created directories recursively when using the inotify monitor

[Spiritdude]

On Linux (Ubuntu 15.10):

% fswatch -drx ./
% mkdir a
% cd a; touch zz.txt

No notification of zz.txt is happening, but creation of dir a/ is happening.

[emcrisostomo]

Bug acknowledged.

[emcrisostomo]

Hi @Spiritdude,

This should be fixed in the <develop> branch. Would you mind testing it? It will take me some days to rebuild and test fswatch in all the supported platforms.

[Spiritdude]

I just tested it briefly:

1. created new dir xx/, ok
2. created new file xx/aa.txt, ok
3. created new dir xx/yy/, ok
4. created new file xx/yy/bb.txt, ok

:-) so it seems fixed, thanks!

[Spiritdude]

Perhaps close issue when the fix is in the main branch available.

[emcrisostomo]

Thanks @Spiritdude for testing this one!

I think we can close this: the milestone tag (1.9.0) specifies the release that will include this fix.

[damscal]

I'm still experiencing this bug with the current ubuntu's package (version 1.14.0)

[YujiShen]

Same problem when using inotify on Ubuntu 18.04, (fswatch version 1.11.2). poll_monitor does not have this problem, but it report all files under the new folder instead of only report the folder.