Repository: alacritty/alacritty
File: alacritty/src/config/monitor.rs (Rust)

Code before:
use std::path::PathBuf;
use std::sync::mpsc;
use std::time::Duration;

use log::{debug, error};
use notify::{watcher, DebouncedEvent, RecursiveMode, Watcher};

use alacritty_terminal::thread;

use crate::event::{Event, EventProxy};

#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows"))]
const DEBOUNCE_DELAY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(10);
#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows")))]
const DEBOUNCE_DELAY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(1000);

pub fn watch(paths: Vec<PathBuf>, event_proxy: EventProxy) {
    let paths = {
        let mut paths_tmp = Vec::new();
        for path in paths {
            if path.exists() {
                paths_tmp.push(path.clone());

                // Also watch the targets of symbolic links
                match path.symlink_metadata() {
                    Ok(metadata) if metadata.file_type().is_symlink() => {
                        match path.canonicalize() {
                            Ok(canonical_path) => paths_tmp.push(canonical_path),
                            Err(err) => {
                                error!("Unable to canonicalize config path {:?}: {}", path, err)
                            },
                        }
                    },
                    Ok(_) => {},
                    Err(err) => {
                        error!("Unable to get metadata for config path {:?}: {}", path, err)
                    },
                }
            } else {
                error!("Config path does not exist: {:?}", path);
            }
        }
        paths_tmp
    };

Review comment (suggestion):
The unfortunate naming of this variable indicates that this is probably not the greatest way to solve this problem. I don't think it should be necessary to create a separate vector.

Code after:
use std::path::PathBuf;
use std::sync::mpsc;
use std::time::Duration;

use log::{debug, error};
use notify::{watcher, DebouncedEvent, RecursiveMode, Watcher};

use alacritty_terminal::thread;

use crate::event::{Event, EventProxy};

#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows"))]
const DEBOUNCE_DELAY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(10);
#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows")))]
const DEBOUNCE_DELAY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(1000);

pub fn watch(mut paths: Vec<PathBuf>, event_proxy: EventProxy) {
    // Don't monitor config if there is no path to watch.
    if paths.is_empty() {
        return;
    }

    // Canonicalize paths, keeping the base paths for symlinks.
    for i in 0..paths.len() {
        if let Ok(canonical_path) = paths[i].canonicalize() {
            match paths[i].symlink_metadata() {
                Ok(metadata) if metadata.file_type().is_symlink() => paths.push(canonical_path),
                _ => paths[i] = canonical_path,
            }
        }
    }

    // The Duration argument is a debouncing period.
    let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel();
    let mut watcher = match watcher(tx, DEBOUNCE_DELAY) {
        Ok(watcher) => watcher,
        Err(err) => {
            error!("Unable to watch config file: {}", err);
            return;
        },
    };

    thread::spawn_named("config watcher", move || {
        // Get all unique parent directories.