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@gjz010 gjz010 commented Mar 30, 2024

Currently the implementation of FSNotify on Linux traverses through all subdirectories and call INo.addWatch (inotify_add_watch) recursively on all directories. This crashes applications when a really unwanted directory (for example, one containing broken symlinks) is scanned, and may cause performance problems.

(See srid/unionmount#9 , where .direnv and therefore a whole nixpkgs is scanned.)

In this patch, a confPathFilter is added to WatchConfig to allow users to hold the library back from traversing down unwanted directories.

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