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Security

	Vulnerabilities
Version	Suggest	Low	Medium	High	Critical

8.6.1	0	0	0	0	0
8.6.0	0	0	0	0	0
7.11.0	0	0	0	0	0
6.12.0	0	0	0	0	0
6.9.0	0	0	0	0	0
6.1.1	0	0	0	0	0
4.10.1	0	0	0	0	0
4.10.0	0	0	0	0	0
3.4.0	0	0	0	0	0
2.12.0	0	0	0	0	0
2.11.0	0	0	0	0	0
0.9.2	0	0	0	0	0
0.9.1	0	0	0	0	0
0.9.0	0	0	0	0	0

Stability

Latest release:

8.6.1 - This version may not be safe as it has not been updated for a long time. Find out if your coding project uses this component and get notified of any reported security vulnerabilities with Meterian-X Open Source Security Platform

Licensing

Maintain your licence declarations and avoid unwanted licences to protect your IP the way you intended.

ISC - ISC License

Not a wildcard

Not proprietary

OSI Compliant

FS: Native Listener (Mac Windows Linux)

Backends

Mac fsevent
Linux inotify
Windows inotify-win

NOTE: On Linux you need to install inotify-tools.

Subscribe to Notifications

> fs:start_link(fs_watcher, "/Users/5HT/synrc/fs"). % need to start the fs watcher
> fs:subscribe(fs_watcher). % the pid will receive events as messages
> flush().
Shell got {<0.47.0>,
           {fs,file_event},
           {"/Users/5HT/synrc/fs/src/README.md",[closed,modified]}}

List Events from Backend

> fs:known_events(fs_watcher). % returns events known by your backend
[mustscansubdirs,userdropped,kerneldropped,eventidswrapped,
 historydone,rootchanged,mount,unmount,created,removed,
 inodemetamod,renamed,modified,finderinfomod,changeowner,
 xattrmod,isfile,isdir,issymlink,ownevent]

Sample Subscriber

> fs:start_looper(). % starts a sample process that logs events
=INFO REPORT==== 28-Aug-2013::19:36:26 ===
file_event: "/tank/proger/erlfsmon/src/4913" [closed,modified]

Credits

Vladimir Kirillov
Maxim Sokhatsky
Dominic Letz

OM A HUM

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