File::...efault(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

so bestie, this page is for File::ChangeNotify::Watcher::Default — the fallback default watcher subclass 💅 (the manual name up top is File::...efault(3pm), in case you were squinting at your terminal like 👀)

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

version 0.31 — that's the vibe, that's the number, no cap 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: this class implements watching by comparing two snapshots of the filesystem tree 🌸 it is inefficient and dumb, and so it is the subclass of last resort. like, it's the friend you call at 3am only because everyone else is asleep 😭

Its $watcher->wait_for_events method sleeps between comparisons of the filesystem snapshot it takes. that's the whole bit. it naps, then it checks again. iconic behaviour honestly 💤

ngl, the source itself calls this one inefficient and dumb — so like, believe it. it's the fallback for a reason, bestie.

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💖 SUPPORT 💖

Bugs may be submitted at:

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-ChangeNotify

or via email to bug-file-changenotify@rt.cpan.org (mailto: bug-file-changenotify@rt.cpan.org).

I am also usually active on IRC as 'autarch' on irc://irc.perl.org. come say hi 🫶✨

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🌈 SOURCE 🌈

The source code repository for File-ChangeNotify can be found at:

https://github.com/houseabsolute/File-ChangeNotify

go peek, go star, go slay ⭐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> — the main character who wrote all this 💜

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🍓 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🍓

This software is Copyright (c) 2009 - 2019 by Dave Rolsky.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution. read it, it's giving legally binding but make it cute 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was rendered under perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-12-04, and the manual name is File::...efault(3pm) — mwah, take care of her 💅💖