Canonicalize the config watching path (#672)

This should resolve an issue where config behind a symlink was not being
properly reloaded when edited.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 7734e7af..e4f17ae7 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -1410,9 +1410,10 @@ impl Monitor {
             _thread: ::util::thread::spawn_named("config watcher", move || {
                 let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel();
                 let mut watcher = FileWatcher::new(tx).unwrap();
-                watcher.watch(&path).expect("watch alacritty yml");
+                let config_path = ::std::fs::canonicalize(path)
+                    .expect("canonicalize config path");
 
-                let config_path = path.as_path();
+                watcher.watch(&config_path).expect("watch alacritty yml");
 
                 loop {
                     let event = rx.recv().expect("watcher event");