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fs.watchFile calling listener on non-existing files #1745
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There is a fix pending here: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#25469
Reacted by wave@kanongil according to some discussion (#2028 (comment)), some believe that this should be the correct functionality. Do you have an opinion on that?
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on Jul 10, 2015 @kanongil As per the discussion here, the current behaviour is preferred. And the doc improvement is done in #2093 and #2169. Please feel free to review them and suggest changes. I am closing this issue now. Please leave a comment if you strongly feel that this has to be reopened and discussed further. Thanks :-)
fs.watchFileis supposed to call the listener when the file attributes change. If I call it using a non-existing path, the listener is immediately fired for some reason.In node 0.10, it would wait until the file exists before calling the listener. The current functionality does however match node 0.12 behavior, which I filed an issue again here: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#25345.