planety / fsnotify

A file system monitor in Nim

fsnotify

A file system monitor in Nim

Supporting platform

Platform	Watching Directory	Watching File
Windows	ReadDirectoryChangesW	polling using os.getLastModificationTime and os.fileExists
Linux	inotify	polling using inotify and os.fileExists
Macos	TODO(fsevents)	polling using os.getLastModificationTime and os.fileExists
BSD	Not implemented	TODO(kqueue)

Hello, world

import std/os
import fsnotify


proc hello(event: seq[PathEvent]) =
  echo "Hello: "
  echo event

var watcher = initWatcher()
register(watcher, "/root/play", hello)

while true:
  sleep(500)
  process(watcher)