Filesystem watchers like libinotify do not work

[mablae]

The whole /proc/sys/fs structure is missing, too.

inotitywait does not get triggered by filesystem changes.

[stehufntdev]

Thanks for reporting the issue.

Currently, only portions of procfs are implemented and there is limited inotify support. To get this on our priority list can you add it to our [UserVoice](https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/category/161892-bash page) page? Thanks again for trying out WSL!

[patryk9200]

I just added at UserVoice request for filesystem watchers & inotify.
https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/13469097-support-for-filesystem-watchers-like-inotify

[mablae]

@patryk9200 Thanks!

[JSMike]

All of the node.js watch functions that I've tried fail on EPERM. I've ensured that all files and directories that it's trying to access have the proper ownership group and user. I even tried running watch tasks as the root user, and I receive the same eperm issue. I've also made sure that all of the files are listed inside the linux subsystem, and that I'm not trying to watch files mounted to /mnt/c/

[mablae]

JSMike: It does not work. This is why we opened this issue 😄

[JSMike]

yes, I was just trying to add detail