inotify is a POSIX library that would help meet the need. It apparently has not been ported to Cygwin as a regular package, though Windows has the necessary underlying ability.
However, this suggests that you can fairly easily build a program to help: https://github.com/thekid/inotify-win It seems to build and work reasonably well. Another angle is this Qt library (though I am not sure if it works under Cygwin): https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfilesystemwatcher.html Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
