This repository is a fork of the unmaintained/deprecated golang.org/x/exp/inotify library. This code was mirrored for a time on Github but is now deleted from the mirror.

As we and a number of other people still use the library, we thought it would be best to fork it.

How we created the fork:

1. Cloned the following mirror:

git clone https://github.com/golang/exp

2. Reverted back to the inotify: fix memory leak in Watcher commit:

git reset --hard 292a51b8d262487dab23a588950e8052d63d9113

3. Copied the inotify directory and licensing info into a new git repo

This was not our favorite way to fork inotify but we didn't have many other choices. We chose to fork this perfectly good (but deprecated) library that fulfills our needs because the newer one (fsnotify) simply does not.

For more information about how we came to the decision to fork this library, see the following issue: Need fully functional inotify golang package