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fs.watch should throw an exception if recursive is not supported #29901
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Seems reasonable to me.
Okay, I believe I should wait for more approvals?
Then I'll be more than happy for this to be my first contribution to the project.- added 3 commits that reference this issue
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endevent if there is no underlying data #65-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 12 20:31:55 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxIt has been discussed in the past, that recursion watch is not implementable with good performances in Linux . And it is actually documented, But currently, the fs.watch just ignores this option without signalling the user that the recursive has been ignored. I truly believe that an exception should be thrown if recursive is ignored, as it might cause unexpected bugs while cross-platforming an app or a script, And probably most users wouldn't imagine that such incapability exists, and probably won't look it up.
Of course, this is a breaking change.