arxaqapi/ojo

👁️ A tool to execute a certain command when a target file is modified.

Tarek 🌱

• 📜 My website: takun.org

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ojo's Issues

protected path causes Unix.lstat to fail

Description

ojo fails if Unix.lstat fails. If the permission are denied the stats cannot be retrieved.

Error gotten if watching root /:

Fatal error: exception Sys_error("//lost+found: Permission denied")

What should happen instead

The protected path (file or directory) should be ignored and not cause ojo to crash

Watch a complete directory for change

Add the possibility to monitor for changes in a entire directory.

• .gitignore files should be parsed and taken into account by default, thus not monitoring large or numerous useless files Postponed
• ojo .: The current directory . can be used to monitor files in the current directory

opam publish linter warning

Remove the dot in the synopsis, triggering a linter warning when running opam publish

Restrict usage in opam file to unix platforms

Cannot retrieve unix stat from deleted file

Files that are tracked and deleted causes the program to crash.

The stats of the file cannot be retrieved

Implement actual modification time output

hardcoded user path in tests causes errors

The line:

  let _dir = Watcher.Dir.make ~max_depth:1 "/home/aq" in

Causes opam-CI to fail when trying to call Unix.lstat on /home/aq.

See: https://opam.ci.ocaml.org/github/ocaml/opam-repository/commit/0ea05c11e1c99d3a3a7d44edbfcbed19a245061c

Add option to kill the process if the delay is exceeded

Add sub 1 second delay option

Issue: Feature request

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TLDR:

Allow the user to use a delay of less than one second.

Description of the request

Some usage would require to check if the watched file has been changed in a shorter time frame than one second.

Thus, it would be beneficial to allow the user to input a delay value with more precision.

Thoughts around the implementation

One could specify the unit of the delay like this

• -d 1s = 1 second delay
• -d 100ms = 100 millisecond delay