Changes from editor do not trigger watchman

[AntonioCS]

I have a vm running centos. I have compiled and installed watchman.
I have this trigger:

{
"version": "2.9.9",
"triggers": [
{
"name": "compilets",
"append_files": true,
"command": [
"make"
],
"stdin": [
"name",
"exists",
"new",
"size",
"mode"
],
"expression": [
"anyof",
[
"match",
"*.ts",
"wholename"
]
]
}
]
}

If I am in the terminal and use vim to change the files this gets triggered, but if I am using notepad++ (from my windows 7 machine) this does not trigger.

Is this the expected behaviour? I thought watchman would watch for changes in the folder independently of where does changes were coming from.

This folder is a shared folder from windows to linux (virtualbox does all the mouting stuff).
I was hoping that watchman would still work :)

[sunshowers]

No, that won't work. From the documentation at https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html:

Watchman relies on the operating system facilities for file notification, which means that you will likely have very poor results using it on any kind of remote or distributed filesystem.