fsmon 1.2

This 1.2 release comes with a fully refactored codebase that split ups the different implementations of the file monitoring logic. This change adds two new commandline flags to the tool:

• -L list all supported backends
• -B select an specific backend

For example, on iOS (watchOS, tvOS included) and OSX fsmon -L shows:

• devfsev
• kqueue
• fsevapi

It also addresses some of the issues reported by different users:

• Properly handling signals (SIG31-C)
• Show no processname instead of trash from previous iteration
• Use better coding practices (ifdef guards using non-conflicting identifiers
• Handle unknown dev/fsevents packets in a better way to avoid losing some events in OSX.
• Fix JSON output when SIGINT happens

fsmon 1.1

• Add binary-compatibility issues for kitkat and beyond.
• Clean trash characters in newfile event
• Implement -a sec to stop after N seconds
• JSON output is now correct even after a ^C
• Added man fsmon manual page

Special thanks to @marioballano for testing and tuning the makefiles to get fsmon running on old versions of Android.

Binary packages for iOS / OSX and the plain binary for Android is available here:

First release of fsmon

Those are the binaries for Android, iOS and OSX.