Issues

• kqueue: remove closes the watch descriptor before dropping its table entry, so a concurrent Add can lose its watch and leak the fd

  fsnotify/fsnotify#795 · Filter by author acoseac opened on Oct 20, 2026

• kqueue: renaming a watched directory leaves its files' watches open under their old paths, and can lose the Rename

  fsnotify/fsnotify#791 · Filter by author acoseac opened on Oct 15, 2026

• kqueue: Close races with readEvents, leaking descriptors and closing reused ones

  fsnotify/fsnotify#788 · Filter by author zhenya-sikirzhitsky-pernod opened on Oct 11, 2026

• kqueue: dirChange stops at the first dangling symlink, later new files get no Create (follow-up to #727)

  fsnotify/fsnotify#787 · Filter by author GiulioSavini opened on Oct 10, 2026
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• kqueue: races between the reader's own registrations and unlink/Add leave dead watches (lost Create events) and duplicate descriptors

  fsnotify/fsnotify#783 · Filter by author atlas-from-plumb opened on Oct 5, 2026

• kqueue: entries inside a watched directory are opened through symlinks, despite the "not from listdir" comment

  fsnotify/fsnotify#781 · Filter by author cameronsjo opened on Sep 30, 2026

• inotify: watch is dropped on unmount without any event or error

  bug
  fsnotify/fsnotify#774 · Filter by author twz123 opened on Sep 4, 2026

• windows: double CloseHandle on a torn-down watch aborts the Go runtime (ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE)

  fsnotify/fsnotify#768 · Filter by author trendvidia opened on Jul 28, 2026

• Export WithOps()

  fsnotify/fsnotify#764 · Filter by author sunziping2016 opened on Jun 9, 2026
  1

• Open question for the reason why other maintainers were removed from the org

  fsnotify/fsnotify#757 · Filter by author ymotongpoo opened on May 7, 2026
  29

• Watching only a directory for changes

  fsnotify/fsnotify#728 · Filter by author WhyNotHugo opened on Feb 16, 2026

• macOS watcher notifications miss writes to a deleted + re-created file

  bugkqueue
  fsnotify/fsnotify#717 · Filter by author prashantv opened on Oct 16, 2025
  2

• windows: Dead lock between watcher.Close() and watcher.Add()

  bugwindows
  fsnotify/fsnotify#704 · Filter by author h9jiang opened on Jul 21, 2025
  2

• Missing updates through renamed parent directory

  v2
  fsnotify/fsnotify#694 · Filter by author valoq opened on May 11, 2025
  8

• v1.9.0 (vs 1.8.0) macos change / test failure

  bugkqueue
  fsnotify/fsnotify#689 · Filter by author ldemailly opened on Apr 6, 2025
  3

• illumos: adds links as a separate watch if the destination is already watched

  bugillumos
  fsnotify/fsnotify#680 · Filter by author arp242 opened on Mar 31, 2025

• Memory leaks after removing paths on Windows

  bugwindows
  fsnotify/fsnotify#669 · Filter by author nsky99 opened on Jan 21, 2025
  1

• When removing symlink no events happens on MacOS.

  bugkqueue
  fsnotify/fsnotify#636 · Filter by author mbobrovskyi opened on May 16, 2024
  1

• illumos: track renames

  illumos
  fsnotify/fsnotify#630 · Filter by author nshalman opened on May 1, 2024
  1

  

• Inconsistent event paths from Docker on macOS

  bugmacOSneed-feedback
  fsnotify/fsnotify#584 · Filter by author mokiat opened on Oct 13, 2023
  7

• Support additional event types

  feature
  fsnotify/fsnotify#519 · Filter by author arp242 opened on Oct 13, 2022
  6

• Windows: fsnotify.Watcher.Add randomly hang with high volume file/folder

  bugwindows
  fsnotify/fsnotify#502 · Filter by author StarAurryon opened on Sep 5, 2022
  9

• inotify: Flush All Events Before Close

  linux
  fsnotify/fsnotify#431 · Filter by author horahoradev opened on Feb 20, 2022

• documentation: not obvious what the API on watcher.Errors is

  v2
  fsnotify/fsnotify#216 · Filter by author stevekuznetsov opened on Aug 16, 2017
  2

• Inconsistent watcher.Add errors on different platforms

  v2
  fsnotify/fsnotify#144 · Filter by author tuxmea opened on May 14, 2016
  3