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This commit documents the bigint option to fs.watchFile(), which
has been supported since v10.5.0.

PR-URL: #32128
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
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cjihrig authored and codebytere committed Mar 17, 2020
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<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.31
changes:
- version: v10.5.0
pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20220
description: The `bigint` option is now supported.
- version: v7.6.0
pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10739
description: The `filename` parameter can be a WHATWG `URL` object using
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* `filename` {string|Buffer|URL}
* `options` {Object}
* `bigint` {boolean} **Default:** `false`
* `persistent` {boolean} **Default:** `true`
* `interval` {integer} **Default:** `5007`
* `listener` {Function}
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});
```

These stat objects are instances of `fs.Stat`.
These stat objects are instances of `fs.Stat`. If the `bigint` option is `true`,
the numeric values in these objects are specified as `BigInt`s.

To be notified when the file was modified, not just accessed, it is necessary
to compare `curr.mtime` and `prev.mtime`.
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