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A symlink whose target path passes through a regular file (ENOTDIR) silently disables watching of its directory and prevents ready

Status: Open.

#1476 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· talkasab opened on Aug 6, 2026

usePolling: silent 100% CPU busy-loop when a relatively-watched file's tree (incl. process CWD) is deleted — repros on v3/v4/v5

Status: Open.

#1474 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· bernardgut opened on Jul 17, 2026

Files created in a newly-added directory between its scan and fs.watch registration are silently missed (still present in v5; same root cause as #1112)

Status: Open.

#1471 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· aliasunder opened on Jul 10, 2026

Watching a non-existent nested path silently stops its parent directory's subtree from being watched

Status: Open.

#1470 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· sapphi-red opened on Jul 10, 2026

Windows: false change events for watched files when many sibling files are written

Status: Open.

#1466 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· okorion opened on Jun 18, 2026

v4: duplicate "add" events for unchanged files (same inode/birthtime/size) — intermittent under directory activity

Status: Open.

#1465 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· vnsteen opened on May 29, 2026

Replacing watched directory with a file of the same name hangs process

Status: Open.

#1464 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· tgrajewski opened on May 25, 2026

Persistent watch stopped after watched directory is removed

Status: Open.

#1463 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· tgrajewski opened on May 25, 2026

Event throttling discards updates

Status: Open.

#1455 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· adrianjost opened on Apr 10, 2026

v5: many concurrent watchers cause child_process.fork() EBADF on macOS (regression from v3)

Status: Open.

#1452 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· Prains opened on Mar 12, 2026

New event after initial listeners are done

Status: Open.

#1451 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· kocv59 opened on Jan 31, 2026

Feature request event when awaitWriteFinish is waiting

Status: Open.

#1444 In paulmillr/chokidar;

· Maescool opened on Nov 25, 2025