Update go.mod and add notes on the provenance of this package

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Hello @nicks,

Please review the following commits I made in branch nicks/rebase:

fb09a0d (2021-04-20 13:51:48 -0400)
Update go.mod and add notes on the provenance of this package

f27fd4f (2021-04-20 13:49:26 -0400)
windows: dynamically adjust the buffer size

1785776 (2021-04-20 13:49:26 -0400)
oops, i forgot how to cross-compile properly on windows

2cb9c60 (2021-04-20 13:49:26 -0400)
windows: expose support for recursive directory watches

846b32d (2021-04-20 13:49:26 -0400)
Fix debugging on macos

8a5d4ab (2021-04-20 13:49:26 -0400)
kqueue: Make watcher.Close() O(n) instead of O(n^2)

7f4cf4d (2020-04-17 14:56:12 -0700)
Fix unsafe pointer conversion (fsnotify#325)
Fix the following unsafe pointer conversion found using the Go 1.14
-d=checkptr gcflags (go1.14rc1 test -gcflags=all=-d=checkptr -v ./...)

fatal error: checkptr: unsafe pointer conversion

goroutine 68 [running]:
runtime.throw(0x5833e9, 0x23)
	runtime/panic.go:1112 +0x72 fp=0xc00030fba8 sp=0xc00030fb78 pc=0x432a32
runtime.checkptrAlignment(0xc00031f018, 0x544800, 0x1)
	runtime/checkptr.go:18 +0xb7 fp=0xc00030fbd8 sp=0xc00030fba8 pc=0x4063a7
github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify.(*Watcher).readEvents(0xc0002900f0)
	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/inotify.go:275 +0x457 fp=0xc00031ffd8 sp=0xc00030fbd8 pc=0x519037
runtime.goexit()
	runtime/asm_amd64.s:1375 +0x1 fp=0xc00031ffe0 sp=0xc00031ffd8 pc=0x463eb1
created by github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify.NewWatcher
	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/inotify.go:59 +0x1a5

Fixes fsnotify#330
45d7d09 (2020-03-11 11:35:18 -0600)
Move example usage to the readme
may resolve fsnotify#328

4bf2d1f (2019-10-11 19:07:59 -0600)
Updating the FAQ section for supportability with NFS & FUSE filesystems.
closes fsnotify#312 fsnotify#306

dc27d96 (2019-10-07 20:08:56 -0600)
drop 1.8.x from Travis CI
see fsnotify#310

fce5a44 (2019-10-07 20:08:56 -0600)
2019

ecf2c4d (2019-10-07 20:08:56 -0600)
revise editor config
tabs only for Go

0a05407 (2019-10-07 20:08:56 -0600)
Add Go modules

ab058b4 (2019-10-05 16:41:51 -0600)
readme: plan to support fanotify

924410f (2019-10-05 16:01:05 -0600)
Open files with CLOEXEC
Fix fsnotify#272

1485a34 (2019-03-12 11:14:46 -0700)
Also create epoll and pipe fds with close-on-exec (fsnotify#155) (fsnotify#219)

• Add the unix.O_CLOEXEC to the Pipe2 call
• Add unix.EPOLL_CLOEXEC to the Epoll call
  11844c0 (2019-03-08 10:06:45 -0700)
  readme: remove AppVeyor badge
  Use Travis CI for Windows only run golint on latest version of go fsnotify/fsnotify#284

85de84f (2019-03-08 10:04:29 -0700)
Add windows to travis matrix

2216558 (2019-03-08 10:04:29 -0700)
Fix lint issue with error doc string

9152fb1 (2019-03-08 10:04:29 -0700)
only run golint on latest version of go

ccc981b (2018-08-30 16:02:26 -0600)
Check if channels are closed in the example (fsnotify#244)

• Check if channels are closed in the example

• Check if the channels are closed before printing

1f285c6 (2018-08-30 15:20:37 -0600)
darwin tests: Exchangedata is deprecated on 10.13
fsnotify#264

7b866c9 (2018-08-30 15:20:37 -0600)
travis: less verbose tests
TravisCI: skip tip

8ba2b19 (2018-08-30 14:59:23 -0600)
[fsnotify#234] t.Fatalf -> t.Errorf in go routines (fsnotify#266)
The documentation for t.FailNow (which is called by t.Fatalf) states
that it should not be called in go routines outside of the test go
routine.
70cc4a1 (2018-08-30 14:03:37 -0600)
Fix TestInotifyOverflow (fsnotify#265)

• Queued inotify events could have been read by the test before max_queued_events was hit
  1d13583 (2018-08-30 09:48:21 -0600)
  TravisCI: updating test versions

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