Package notify implements access to filesystem events. Notify is a high-level abstraction over filesystem watchers like inotify, kqueue, FSEvents, FEN or ReadDirectoryChangesW. Watcher implementations are split into two groups: ones that natively support recursive notifications (FSEvents and ReadDirectoryChangesW) and ones that do not (inotify, kqueue, FEN). For more details see watcher and recursiveWatcher interfaces in watcher.go source file. On top of filesystem watchers notify maintains a watchpoint tree, which provides a strategy for creating and closing filesystem watches and dispatching filesystem events to user channels. An event set is just an event list joint using bitwise OR operator into a single event value. Both the platform-independent (see Constants) and specific events can be used. Refer to the event_*.go source files for information about the available events. A filesystem watch or just a watch is platform-specific entity which represents a single path registered for notifications for specific event set. Setting a watch means using platform-specific API calls for creating / initializing said watch. For each watcher the API call is: To rewatch means to either shrink or expand an event set that was previously registered during watch operation for particular filesystem watch. A watchpoint is a list of user channel and event set pairs for particular path (watchpoint tree's node). A single watchpoint can contain multiple different user channels registered to listen for one or more events. A single user channel can be registered in one or more watchpoints, recursive and non-recursive ones as well.