chore: downgrade chokidar library due to unexpected errors on macOS

related to https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/issues/9406
Signed-off-by: Florent Benoit <fbenoit@redhat.com>

package.json

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
     "@types/winreg": "^1.2.36",
     "adm-zip": "^0.5.16",
     "check-disk-space": "^3.4.0",
-    "chokidar": "^4.0.1",
+    "chokidar": "^3.6.0",
     "compare-versions": "^6.1.1",
     "date.js": "^0.3.3",
     "dockerode": "^4.0.2",

packages/main/src/plugin/filesystem-monitoring.spec.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import { promises } from 'node:fs';
 import os from 'node:os';
 import path, { join } from 'node:path';
 
+import { watch } from 'chokidar';
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, expect, test, vi } from 'vitest';
 
 import { isWindows } from '/@/util.js';
@@ -189,3 +190,19 @@ test('watch a file in a directory being a symlink to another directory', async (
     expect(createListener).toHaveBeenCalledWith(Uri.file(realfile));
   });
 });
+
+// related to https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/issues/1391
+// and https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/issues/1391
+test.runIf(os.platform() === 'darwin')('Watch a directory with a lot of files', async () => {
+  const watcher = watch('/var/run', {
+    persistent: true,
+    ignorePermissionErrors: true,
+  });
+
+  let counter = 0;
+  watcher.on('all', () => {
+    counter++;
+  });
+
+  await vi.waitFor(() => expect(counter).toBeGreaterThan(3));
+});

pnpm-lock.yaml

@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ importers:
         specifier: ^3.4.0
         version: 3.4.0
       chokidar:
-        specifier: ^4.0.1
-        version: 4.0.1
+        specifier: ^3.6.0
+        version: 3.6.0
       compare-versions:
         specifier: ^6.1.1
         version: 6.1.1