Mac (with fsevents) does not watch directories

[vojtajina]

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[paulmillr]

Huh? Works for me. Version, node, env? Fsevents are not enabled by default currently

[vojtajina]

Mac 10.9, Node 0.10.22.

[vojtajina]

I'm running it through Karma, so maybe there's something else wrong. I will investigate more.

[vojtajina]

This is really weird. Following code works when run on its own, but when executed inside Karma (requiring the same file from Karma rather than running it directly) it does not fire the watcher at all. I don't have enough time right now, will look into it later.

var c = require('chokidar');
var w = new c.FSWatcher({
  usePolling: false,
  ignorePermissionErrors: true,
  ignoreInitial: true,
  useFsEvents: true
});

w.add('/Users/vojta/Code/karma/test/e2e/basic');
w.on('change', function() {
  console.log('change', arguments)
});

Very often I also get this libuv error (crashing the VM, without even cleaning up):

Assertion failed: (!(handle->flags & UV_CLOSED)), function uv__finish_close, file ../deps/uv/src/unix/core.c, line 172.
Abort trap: 6

[paulmillr]

The crash is related to fsevents module, there is an open issue there.

[vojtajina]

So it's something with socket.io - when flashsocket transport is enabled then, fsevents never fires.

[vojtajina]

I looked into this a bit more but it's still a mystery. Created an issue on fsevents repo, closing this one.