fix(watch): skip unreadable directories instead of failing the watch - #13992
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Signed-off-by: Endika Iglesias <endika2@gmail.com>
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CI runs the tests as root, where the unreadable-directory test is always skipped. Extract the WalkDir callbacks and inject the watch registration so a synthetic permission error can drive those branches instead. Signed-off-by: Endika Iglesias <endika2@gmail.com>
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What I did
compose watchregisters an inotify watch on every directory below the watchedpath. A single directory the current user cannot read makes registration fail
with
permission denied, and the whole watch fails to start — so nothing getswatched at all.
Permission errors are now treated the way the surrounding code already treats
os.IsNotExist: log at debug level andfilepath.SkipDir. Losing visibilityinto one subtree should not cost the entire watch.
Includes a regression test in
watcher_naive_test.go, which fails without thechange.
Related issue
closes #13750