J'ai trouvé ce fil intitulé: Bug # 225549: avoir un moniteur de surveillance stderr . Ce fil date de 2008, mais il semble que les anciennes versions ne prennent pas en charge la surveillance de quoi que ce soit d'autre que STDOUT.
Nous sommes donc limités à STDOUT. En ce qui concerne le visible, il y a beaucoup de langage dans le info watchet man watchcela me fait penser que votre observation / hypothèse est correcte.
extrait
watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screen‐
full). This allows you to watch the program output change over time.
By default, the program is run every 2 seconds; use -n or --interval to
specify a different interval.
Aussi ce bit sous BUGS:
BUGS
Upon terminal resize, the screen will not be correctly repainted until
the next scheduled update. All --differences highlighting is lost on
that update as well.
Si je devais deviner, je penserais qu'ils stockaient les bits visibles dans un tampon entre les exécutions, puis analysaient uniquement ces caractères.
EDIT # 1
J'ai débogué cela plus en utilisant straceet vous pouvez voir la watchlecture de la sortie de la lscommande afin de supprimer en interne le changement.
avant de supprimer le mfichier
$ strace -o w.log watch -g 'ls -1'
read(3, "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh\ni\nj\nk\nl\nm\nn\nw.lo"..., 4096) = 34
close(3) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
munmap(0x7f4da83af000, 4096) = 0
wait4(31011, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 31011
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, 8) = 0
write(1, "\33[H\33[2JEvery 2.0s: ls -1\33[1;140H"..., 119) = 119
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({2, 0}, NULL) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f4da839f9d0) = 31014
close(4) = 0
fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4da83af000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
read(3, "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh\ni\nj\nk\nl\nm\nn\nw.lo"..., 4096) = 34
close(3) = 0
munmap(0x7f4da83af000, 4096) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
après la msuppression du fichier
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, 8) = 0
poll([{fd=0, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=0, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
write(1, "\33[1;158H8\33[11;163H", 18) = 18
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({2, 0}, NULL) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f4da839f9d0) = 31028
close(4) = 0
fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4da83af000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
read(3, "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh\ni\nj\nk\nl\nn\nw.log\n", 4096) = 32
close(3) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
munmap(0x7f4da83af000, 4096) = 0
wait4(31028, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 31028
-goptionwatch? Je ne le trouve pas dans ma version dewatch