I'm particularly interested in something like this, but which will include information about what process made the change, and which user it was running as at the time.
You can check out issue/10 for a full description of how it works now, why neither inotify nor our current solution is ideal, and where the project will be going next.
Have you looked into using eBPF for tracking file system changes at any point? (I don't mean for this project, as it's clear you're taking a particular approach that will work across platforms).
Looks like it:
https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/989147b183ee0547d71a1...