fs.watch fired twice when I change the watched file

node.js, watch

Solution

The `fs.watch` api:

- is unstable

- has known "behaviour" with regards repeated notifications. Specifically, the windows case being a result of windows design, where a single file modification can be multiple calls to the windows API

Problem

``` fs.watch( 'example.xml', function ( curr, prev ) { // on file change we can read the new xml fs.readFile( 'example.xml','utf8', function ( err, data ) { if ( err ) throw err; console.dir(data); console.log('Done'); }); }); ``` OUTPUT: - some data - Done X 1 - some data - Done X 2 It is my usage fault or ..?

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