Chokidar (fs.watch?) seems to lock parent of the watched

[CxRes]

Chokidar seems to lock parent directory on Windows 7 when being watched?

Is this expected? Is this an artifact of the iojs fs.watch() method? Are there any possible work arounds?

[es128]

Is this an artifact of the iojs fs.watch() method?

Yes

Is this expected?

I've heard it reported before; it certainly isn't deliberate

Are there any possible work arounds?

usePolling: true perhaps

[es128]

nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8371
nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#3963

Closing this issue as there does not appear to be anything chokidar could do to have an impact on this. Plus it appears to be the intended behavior of the windows file system.

[Elephant-Vessel]

Hey, it seems they have fixed this recently: nodejs/node#375, https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/deps/uv/ChangeLog#L277, nodejs/node@a338eb3