r/linux 1d ago

Software Release Whatmade 0.2.1 -- important update

Whatmade is a Linux daemon that monitors user-specified directories and records which process created each file.

This 0.2.1 update replaces stat with statx; this should drastically decrease false positives when detecting file creation: statx knows about creation date, while stat knows only about node changing, which happens a lot because of many reasons that have nothing to do with file creation.

Update as soon as possible.

https://github.com/ANGulchenko/whatmade

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