"The parameter is incorrect." error when watching files on Windows

[goodsky]

Trying to watch a file on Windows returns this error "The parameter is incorrect." A simple example that reproduces this issue.

root := "./test.txt" // this file exists
events := make(chan notify.EventInfo, 100)

if err := notify.Watch(root, events, notify.All); err != nil {
   log.Fatal(err)
}

I have my suspicion that this may be related to my Go installation or disk setup. I will continue to debug, but posting here in case someone else has seen this before.

[ReallyLiri]

I haven't seen such error on Windows, could it be permissions to the current directory? Did you try different paths?

[mitranim]

Just ran into the same problem on Windows. Seems to happen when watching one file. Doesn't seem to happen when watching a directory. The error does not occur when passing 0 or when not passing any Event values.

I don't think it's related to file permissions. I tried placing the target file into my user directory, and then into a subdirectory there. Should be perfectly accessible.

[mitranim]

As the error text doesn't appear (fully or partially, as far as I could tell) in this library or any of its Go dependencies, I would guess that it's coming from Windows syscalls.