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*Detecting filesystem changes*
For the Linux implementation, we will use the inotify Linux kernel
For the Linux implementation, we will use the `inotify`_ Linux kernel
subsystem to gather events on the local Magic Folder directory tree. This
implementation was already present in Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.0, but needs to be
changed to gather directory creation and move events, in addition to the
events indicating that a file has been written that are gathered by the
current code.
.. _`inotify`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify
For the Windows implementation, we will use the ``ReadDirectoryChangesW``
Win32 API. The prototype implementation simulates a Python interface to
the inotify API in terms of ``ReadDirectoryChangesW``, allowing most of