Nodemon does not restart on VM sync folder

[antoniuslin]

Hello,

First of all, I'm not sure if this is an issue similar to #1630, or even a nodemon issue for that matter. Imo, it's different enough that I think I should ask the community here.

Thanks in advance for your time & input.

Antonius

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The materials are:

• Host: Mac Catalina (but I've observed the same issue in other host-guest OS combo)
• Guest: Ubuntu 18.x
• VM: Virtual Box
• Example Sync folder: /Users/host_username/folder/js_files to /home/guest_username/folder/js_files

The particular issue is:
When I run $> nodemon /home/username/folder/index.js then make a change (a simple re-save or add a new line suffices) to a file local to the guest environment, eg: $> vim /home/guest_username/folder/another.js, nodemon works as expected and would restart.

But if I were to make a change to a file local to the host environment, eg: $> vim /Users/host_username/folder/another.js, nodemon that's still running in guest earlier wouldn't restart.

Yet the file change is correctly reflected from the perspective of the guest user, ie, have a new file timestamp, making me believe it's not a sync folder problem. So could this be a nodemon issue?

$ nodemon --dump
[nodemon] 2.0.4
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
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node: v12.18.0
nodemon: 2.0.4
command: /home/vagrant/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.0/bin/node /home/vagrant/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.0/bin/nodemon --dump
cwd: /home/vagrant/workspace/app
OS: linux x64
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{
  run: false,
  system: { cwd: '/home/vagrant/workspace/app' },
  required: false,
  dirs: [ '/home/vagrant/workspace/app' ],
  timeout: 1000,
  options: {
    dump: true,
    ignore: [
      '**/.git/**',
      '**/.nyc_output/**',
      '**/.sass-cache/**',
      '**/bower_components/**',
      '**/coverage/**',
      '**/node_modules/**',
      re: /.*.*\/\.git\/.*.*|.*.*\/\.nyc_output\/.*.*|.*.*\/\.sass\-cache\/.*.*|.*.*\/bower_components\/.*.*|.*.*\/coverage\/.*.*|.*.*\/node_modules\/.*.*/
    ],
    watch: [ '*.*', re: /.*\..*/ ],
    monitor: [
      '*.*',
      '!**/.git/**',
      '!**/.nyc_output/**',
      '!**/.sass-cache/**',
      '!**/bower_components/**',
      '!**/coverage/**',
      '!**/node_modules/**'
    ],
    ignoreRoot: [
      '**/.git/**',
      '**/.nyc_output/**',
      '**/.sass-cache/**',
      '**/bower_components/**',
      '**/coverage/**',
      '**/node_modules/**'
    ],
    restartable: 'rs',
    colours: true,
    execMap: { py: 'python', rb: 'ruby', ts: 'ts-node' },
    stdin: true,
    runOnChangeOnly: false,
    verbose: false,
    signal: 'SIGUSR2',
    stdout: true,
    watchOptions: {},
    execOptions: {
      script: 'index.js',
      exec: 'node',
      args: [],
      scriptPosition: 0,
      nodeArgs: undefined,
      execArgs: [],
      ext: 'js,mjs,json',
      env: {}
    }
  },
  load: [Function],
  reset: [Function: reset],
  lastStarted: 0,
  loaded: [],
  watchInterval: null,
  signal: 'SIGUSR2',
  command: {
    raw: { executable: 'node', args: [ 'index.js' ] },
    string: 'node index.js'
  }
}
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