FileSystemWatcher is not implemented about longpath HOT 3 CLOSED

That's an interesting request. And makes complete sense. Unfortunately it's not necessarily part of the LongPath library, it's really a re-write of FileSystemWatcher. It's something I can look into to see if it's worthwhile to do in the future.

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Hi Peter, I discovered that only setting the path will give the path too long exception. Raising is no problem. In my project we can set the watcher on a safe level (< 248 chars) so we can keep using the system.io-version.
I guess dotnet framework 4.6.2 will make this package obsolete (but I am not yet allowed to use it in production)

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@GitMarJansen After a bit of research there are possible issues with the underlining watcher implementation that may be unrelated to anything else supporting long paths. e.g. the watch seems to have some fixed-size internal buffers that include filename data and if the filename is too long, the buffer simply can't support it.

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