notify VS linemux

Compare notify vs linemux and see what are their differences.

notify

🔭 Cross-platform filesystem notification library for Rust. (by notify-rs)

linemux

Asynchronous tailing library in Rust (by jmagnuson)
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notify linemux
10 1
2,467 40
3.0% -
8.1 2.5
6 days ago 5 months ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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notify

Posts with mentions or reviews of notify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-04.
  • FIM v0.4.6 - Realtime File monitoring tool
    2 projects | /r/rust | 4 May 2023
    It is a great question. We have based the development on a library called notify, kudos to https://github.com/notify-rs/notify. This library adds a layer of abstraction to each system. It implements kernel-specific hooks as you mentioned. In some cases like Audit extended data, we have developed an integration that detects changes on the Audit log file and processes the given information including a lot of information into Linux systems. We have plans to include it in Windows as well.
  • Building a static site generator in 100 lines of Rust
    5 projects | dev.to | 19 Sep 2022
    In order to detect files changes, we use hotwatch, a simple wrapper over notify that will allow us to save a few lines.
  • Let Rust detect changes in the Markdown file and generate HTML.
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2022
  • Track what process modify file
    2 projects | /r/rust | 25 Mar 2022
    The notify crate uses the inotify API on Linux. However, it's probably not what you want, since one of its limitations is:
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (48/2021)!
    5 projects | /r/rust | 29 Nov 2021
    If you want to build this yourself, you'll want to build on something like notify - there are libraries like linemux built on top of it that will do a lot of this for you too.
  • Effectively monitoring very large number of files
    2 projects | /r/rust | 21 Aug 2021
    I'm most well versed in Python so I started with that and eventually ended up with a POC using watchdog, but the program took more than a day and a half to traverse everything and register all of the watches. I've been trying to learn Rust for a while, and decided to perhaps use this as an excuse to try something 'real' and not just a learning exercise. I found the notify crate (https://github.com/notify-rs/notify) and basically copied their example listed on their GitHub, but even this takes about 16-18 hours to place all the watches before it starts processing events. I did not see any obvious ways to enable asynchronous or async/await code in notify, so I don't know of a way to parallelize the disk I/O with this approach.

linemux

Posts with mentions or reviews of linemux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing notify and linemux you can also consider the following projects:

rust-fuse - Rust library for filesystems in userspace (FUSE)

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

redbpf - Rust library for building and running BPF/eBPF modules

path_abs - ergonomic paths and files in rust

gm2h - This program that automatically converts markdown files to HTML files when they are saved.

dutree - a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust

orange - Cross-platform local file search engine.

Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

KTail - Kubernetes log viewer

perf-tools - Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace