fs.watch fired twice when I change the watched file

Question

 fs.watch( \'example.xml\', function ( curr, prev ) {
   // on file change we can read the new xml
   fs.readFile( \'example.xml\',\'utf8\', function ( err, data ) {         


        

Answer 1

I somtimes get multible registrations of the Watch event causing the Watch event to fire several times. I solved it by keeping a list of watching files and avoid registering the event if the file allready is in the list:

 var watchfiles = {};

function initwatch(fn, callback) {
    if watchlist[fn] {
        watchlist[fn] = true;
        fs.watch(fn).on('change', callback);
    }
}

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