inotify: remove watch when renaming a watched path #518
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Renaming a watched path is problematic; on inotify we just get a IN_MOVED_SELF event with the old filename and that's it; no more events for you! So if you do:
You still continue to get events for the file "one", even though it's now named "two" (the file descriptor doesn't care about the rename). There is no way we can know the new event as far as I can tell, inotifywait(1) also behaves like this. So instead of continuing in a semi-broken state just remove the watcher, like we do for deletes.
On kqueue and FEN the situation is similar, and we actually already removed watchers on renames.
On Windows this all works nicely; the watch is preserved and the filename is updated. I decided to keep this as-is for now, even though it's inconsistent. We actually fixed the Windows behaviour for the 1.6.0 release in #370 , so people do seem to care about it and use it, and experience with the symlink change in 1.5.0 shows it's better to keep inconsistent behaviour rather than change it. Fixing this up is something for a v2.
Fixes #172
Fixes #503