<p>Monitoring is quite difficult, even the Linux kernal <code>inotify</code> documentation contains many warnings about delays, and errors, and races, and network filesystem issues.  </p>

<p>Also its difficult to exclude our own modifications since we don't actually know what they are, non-atomic saving overwrites the original file, atomic saving writes a new file and renames over the original file, and GIO saving tries atomic saving, but if that doesn't work falls back to non-atomic.</p>

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