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Id: 86719
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  Fri Jul 05 00:21:35 2013 sharyanto [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Add option to resolve symlink
If directory to watch is a symlink, currently it is not followed. It'd be nice if there is a warning about this, or a mention in the doc, or an option is added to resolve symlink.
  Sun Jul 14 13:03:46 2013 DROLSKY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Fri Jul 05 00:21:35 2013, SHARYANTO wrote: Show quoted text
> If directory to watch is a symlink, currently it is not followed. It'd > be nice if there is a warning about this, or a mention in the doc, or > an option is added to resolve symlink.
Patches are definitely welcome. Did you test this behavior in multiple watcher implementations? I wonder if inotify and kqueue behave differently than the pure Perl code. I suspect the right thing to do is just to always follow symlinks.
  Sun Jul 14 13:03:47 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'