chokidar · Issues· 48 open

A symlink whose target path passes through a regular file (ENOTDIR) silently disables watching of its directory and prevents `ready`

usePolling: silent 100% CPU busy-loop when a relatively-watched file's tree (incl. process CWD) is deleted — repros on v3/v4/v5

Watching a non-existent nested path silently stops its parent directory's subtree from being watched

Files created in a newly-added directory between its scan and fs.watch registration are silently missed (still present in v5; same root cause as #1112)

Windows: false change events for watched files when many sibling files are written

v4: duplicate "add" events for unchanged files (same inode/birthtime/size) — intermittent under directory activity

Persistent watch stopped after watched directory is removed

Replacing watched directory with a file of the same name hangs process

v5: many concurrent watchers cause child_process.fork() EBADF on macOS (regression from v3)

Event throttling discards updates

Inconsistent, and undocumented, behavior when unwatching child directory and watching parent directory

Failing to detect file changes after the second save

New event after initial listeners are done

Feature request event when awaitWriteFinish is waiting

EBADF error when watching tons of files on macos