notify 6.1.1

Cross-platform filesystem notification library
Documentation

Notify

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Cross-platform filesystem notification library for Rust.

As used by: alacritty, cargo watch, cobalt, docket, mdBook, rust-analyzer, watchexec, xi-editor, watchfiles, and others.

(Looking for desktop notifications instead? Have a look at notify-rust or alert-after!)

Platforms

  • Linux / Android: inotify
  • macOS: FSEvents or kqueue, see features
  • Windows: ReadDirectoryChangesW
  • FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonflyBSD: kqueue
  • All platforms: polling

License

Notify is licensed under the CC Zero 1.0.
notify-debouncer-mini is licensed under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.
notify-debouncer-full is licensed under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.
file-id is licensed under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.

Origins

Inspired by Go's fsnotify and Node.js's Chokidar, born out of need for cargo watch, and general frustration at the non-existence of C/Rust cross-platform notify libraries.

Originally created by Félix Saparelli and awesome contributors.