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Under a recursive watch each subdirectory has an inotify watch of its own. A change to the subdirectory itself (IN_ATTRIB, IN_MODIFY, IN_DELETE_SELF, IN_MOVE_SELF) reaches that watch without a name. The watch of the parent directory reports the same change under the name of the subdirectory. The reader reported both records. The per-handler duplicate suppression dropped the second one only when the two were adjacent and at most 1 ms apart. A rename of a subdirectory with content, a rename over an empty directory, and a removal while a file descriptor holds the directory open each reported the subdirectory one more time. The reader now skips the nameless records of a subdirectory's own watch. IN_UNMOUNT has no twin on the parent and is reported as before.
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Status: open, waits for review. The branch is merged with How to reproduce (Linux, const fs = require("fs"), path = require("path"), os = require("os");
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "w-"));
fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, "a", "nested"), { recursive: true });
const events = [];
const w = fs.watch(dir, { recursive: true }, (e, f) => {
if (f === "sentinel") { console.log(JSON.stringify(events)); return w.close(); }
events.push(`${e}:${f}`);
});
fs.renameSync(path.join(dir, "a"), path.join(dir, "b"));
fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, "sentinel"));
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline findings, I also checked whether the new continue at src/runtime/node/path_watcher.rs:1110 skips any per-event cleanup for the nameless IN_DELETE_SELF/IN_MOVE_SELF records: wd removal from wd_map and the watcher's wds list happens in the separate IN_IGNORED arm (line 984), and the recursive add-watch block is already gated on !name.is_empty(), so no bookkeeping is lost by the early skip.
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The change adds a mask-gated skip in the Linux inotify dispatch loop of fs.watch (src/runtime/node/path_watcher.rs) plus a doc comment, and six Linux-only tests in test/js/node/watch/fs.watch.test.ts. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Two findings were confirmed inline (lost events for mount-root directories and a watcher-error handler gap in the test helper), so a human should weigh those; the ruled-out note records that the early continue does not leak wd entries or bypass the recursive add path.
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In `@src/runtime/node/path_watcher.rs`:
- Around line 1093-1099: Update the nameless self-event branch in the event
dispatch logic to skip these events only when the immediate parent watch covers
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I re-reviewed the latest push and found no new bugs; the eventsOfEachStep helper now routes error and close into a rejecting promise that every step awaits, which closes the test-hang gap from my earlier comment. A maintainer look is still worthwhile because the fix is a deliberate semantic trade (nameless IN_ATTRIB/IN_MODIFY/IN_DELETE_SELF/IN_MOVE_SELF on a subdirectory's own wd are dropped on the assumption the parent wd always carries a named twin), and whether the mount-root case is acceptable is a product call rather than a correctness one.
What was reviewed:
- The skipped owner emits nothing, so bypassing
touched.get_or_putonly skips a no-op flush; the recursive add block already requires a non-empty name, so it is unaffected. - Checked the kernel side: mtime-only utimes is FS_MODIFY (not FS_ATTRIB), so the
touch -mtest and the IN_MODIFY bit in the mask agree; rename-over-directory drops the replaced dir's nameless ATTRIB/DELETE_SELF, which the parent's MOVED_TO already covers. - kqueue/FSEvents backends use a different mechanism (no per-directory named twin), so the duplicate-report class does not carry over there.
- The description says the
struct Linuxdoc comment now lists what a recursive watch reports, but the diff contains no doc-comment change (the "shorten the comments" commit appears to have dropped it), so the description is stale on that point.
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The diff adds a 7-line branch in the Linux inotify dispatch loop of src/runtime/node/path_watcher.rs that skips nameless self-events on a recursive watcher's subdirectory wds, plus a test helper and six Linux-only tests in test/js/node/watch/fs.watch.test.ts. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The latest commit addressed the test-helper failure-wiring I raised earlier; the mount-root downside remains an acknowledged design trade the author lists in the description, and the hunt ran dry with no new findings. I could not run the tests locally (no debug build, and running the suite was not permitted), so the "fails on main" claim for three of the six tests is the author's report. Deferring rather than approving because the change alters observable event delivery in a kernel-event path where the acceptability of the tradeoff is a maintainer judgment.
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Related to #44005
Problem
fs.watch(dir, { recursive: true })can report a change to a subdirectory twice. Witha/nestedpresent,renameSync("a", "b")givesrename:a,rename:b,rename:b/nested,rename:b.Linux::thread_main(src/runtime/node/path_watcher.rs:1076) reports the nameless records of that watch, and the watch of the parent reports the same change by name.Fix
Linux::thread_mainskips the namelessIN_ATTRIB,IN_MODIFY,IN_DELETE_SELFandIN_MOVE_SELFrecords of a subdirectory's own watch.test/js/node/watch/fs.watch.test.ts, 6 new tests.mainfails 3. The 1 ms duplicate suppression hides the second report in the other 3.Background
Downsides
/dev,chmod /dev/shmgiveschange:shmonmainand no event here.Notes
Stack: this PR, then #44008, which removes the 1 ms duplicate suppression.
Linux x64, release builds, 20 runs for each row,
fs.watch(root, { recursive: true }). A sentinel file marks the end of each step, so the rows use no timers.mainrmdir viewsrename:viewsrename:viewsmv a b,aemptyrename:a,rename:brename:bmv a b,a/nestedpresentrename:a,rename:b,rename:b/nested,rename:brename:a,rename:b,rename:b/nestedrename:b,rename:b/nestedmv a bover an emptybrename:a,rename:b,rename:b/nested,change:b,rename:brename:a,rename:b,rename:b/nestedrmdir viewswhile an fd holds it, then close the fdrename:views, thenrename:viewsrename:views, then noneIN_IGNOREDis already silent for the watches of subdirectories, for the same reason.lib/internal/fs/recursive_watch.js). It comparesstat()results and reports fewer events than inotify delivers, so Node is not the reference for these rows.mainfail once the 1 ms suppression is removed without this change: removed, renamed while empty, modification time changed. The next PR of the stack removes the suppression. WithoutIN_MODIFYin the mask, the modification time test fails on that PR with twochange:views.IN_UNMOUNTis the other nameless record that the parent does not get. It is reported as before.touch -m. It is skipped wheretouchhas no-m(busybox before 1.36).test/js/node/watch/(0 fail),test/js/node/test/parallel/test-fs-watch*andtest-fs-promises-watch*(40 of 40).cargo checkpasses for the 12 CI targets.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/watch/fs.watch.test.ts