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tokio
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
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turborepo
Discontinued Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack. [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/turbo]
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fswatch
A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple macOS File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify and fanotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.
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Rewriting Rust
Note that entr doesn't recursively watch for file changes. It has a list of files it watches for changes, but this list isn't amended when new files are added. Fundamentally that's a fairly small subset of proper recursive file watching. A more comparable project in terms of just watching files is https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.
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Simple Directory Watcher to Restart Dev Server
Then I discovered inotify-tools and inside it inotifywait. This tool can do all kinds of file changes that I wanted. So now I only had to create a script which can run the specified command and also is able to kill the process and rerun the command.
- Suite for keeping track of file system changes
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Ask r/kubernetes: What are you working on this week?
I've discovered inotify-tools and lsyncd as options and POC proves that it's possible to detect filesystem changes on a shared emptydir in a pod. Now it's just time to truly prove it out.
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Here's the tool that automatically restarting your process when file changes in the selected directory
How's it different from inotify (or inotify-tools)?
- Using NFS in a distributed synchronous processing
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I made a UNIX-style program to run commands every time a file is updated!
I use inotfy-tools within a makefile to watch my source tex files and retrigger a recompile while manuscripting.
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How to add a cronjob that executes a command whenever an external device is plugged in, not base on time?
maybe this may help you: https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/wiki
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Stop a container from another one
I've found a library which reacts to filesystem events (https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/wiki) and I think it could be used for that.
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The primary programming language of inotify-tools is C++.
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