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docs: document the persistent option for fs.watch and fs.watchFile

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Trevor Burnham 2011-11-16 18:19:46 -05:00 committed by Ben Noordhuis
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@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Synchronous rmdir(2).
### fs.mkdir(path, [mode], [callback])
Asynchronous mkdir(2). No arguments other than a possible exception are given
to the completion callback. `mode` defaults to `0777`.
to the completion callback. `mode` defaults to `0777`.
### fs.mkdirSync(path, [mode])
@ -391,8 +391,11 @@ Watch for changes on `filename`. The callback `listener` will be called each
time the file is accessed.
The second argument is optional. The `options` if provided should be an object
containing two members a boolean, `persistent`, and `interval`, a polling
value in milliseconds. The default is `{ persistent: true, interval: 0 }`.
containing two members a boolean, `persistent`, and `interval`. `persistent`
indicates whether the process should continue to run as long as files are
being watched. `interval` indicates how often the target should be polled,
in milliseconds. (On Linux systems with inotify, `interval` is ignored.) The
default is `{ persistent: true, interval: 0 }`.
The `listener` gets two arguments the current stat object and the previous
stat object:
@ -418,7 +421,9 @@ Watch for changes on `filename`, where `filename` is either a file or a
directory. The returned object is [fs.FSWatcher](#fs.FSWatcher).
The second argument is optional. The `options` if provided should be an object
containing a boolean member `persistent`. The default is `{ persistent: true }`.
containing a boolean member `persistent`, which indicates whether the process
should continue to run as long as files are being watched. The default is
`{ persistent: true }`.
The listener callback gets two arguments `(event, filename)`. `event` is either
'rename' or 'change', and `filename` is the name of the file which triggered