Why Filesystemwatcher Doesn't Work in Linux Container Watching Windows Volume

Why FileSystemWatcher doesn't work in Linux container watching Windows volume

Switching to PhysicalFileProvider did the job.
It seems to be a more portable implementation for file system watching strategies.

The current implementation of PhysicalFileProvider supports the DOTNET_USE_POLLING_FILE_WATCHER environment variable. I couldn't find any reference of it in FileSystemWatcher implementation.

using Microsoft.Extensions.FileProviders;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives;
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace fsw_bug_poc
{
    class Program
    {
        private static PhysicalFileProvider _fileProvider;
        private static IChangeToken _fileChangeToken;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            _fileProvider = new PhysicalFileProvider(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "."));
            WatchForFileChanges();

            Console.ReadKey(false);
        }

        private static void WatchForFileChanges()
        {
            _fileChangeToken = _fileProvider.Watch("*.*");
            _fileChangeToken.RegisterChangeCallback(Notify, default);
        }

        private static void Notify(object state)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("File change detected");
            WatchForFileChanges();
        }
    }
}

FileSystemWatcher locks folder

I've discovered what caused this. There was a second FileSystemWatcher - on a sub directory of the first - which didn't allow renaming the first.

_{(I'm still surprised, though. A FileSystemWatcher should be "invisible".)}

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