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		who23 on Oct 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Filesystem Watcher For clarity, the author did say in another comment that for Windows they plan to implement system API calls to watch files instead of manually scanning the filesystem. For macOS and linux it is listening to OS events.

rasz on Oct 18, 2022 [–]

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