reload-dir forcing cwd causes permissions errors

[zg-anthonyroy]

I wanted to upgrade our version of Uvicorn from 0.14 to the latest but was prevented from doing so because of the reloader secretly adding the CWD to the directories to watch. I have multiple projects that were built on the old version where this does not happen so i was wondering if we could get a flag or something to remove this hidden and undocumented functionality.

We are forced to stay on 0.17.6 until that is reality. Or we find an alternate solution.

This is not just an inconvenience it actually tries to monitor directories that it has no permissions for and crashes the reloader:

File "/usr/local/bin/uvicorn", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1157, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1078, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1434, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 783, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/uvicorn/main.py", line 410, in main
    run(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/uvicorn/main.py", line 572, in run
    ChangeReload(config, target=server.run, sockets=[sock]).run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/uvicorn/supervisors/basereload.py", line 52, in run
    for changes in self:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/uvicorn/supervisors/basereload.py", line 71, in __next__
    return self.should_restart()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/uvicorn/supervisors/watchfilesreload.py", line 84, in should_restart
    changes = next(self.watcher)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/watchfiles/main.py", line 118, in watch
    with RustNotify(
PermissionError: Permission denied (os error 13) about ["<removed>"]

Switching back to the godreloader (which is the version before 0.18.0) resolves our issue because it only monitors the directory we want.

I know this is discussed elsewhere but has not been talked about for over a year:

#2009 , #1783. #1833