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Index: inotify-tools/man/inotifywait.1
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--- inotify-tools.orig/man/inotifywait.1 2012-06-18 02:15:54.000000000 -0700
+++ inotify-tools/man/inotifywait.1 2012-06-18 02:20:15.000000000 -0700
@@ -320,6 +320,14 @@
DELETE badfile
.fi
+.SH CAVEATS
+
+When using inotifywait, the filename that is outputted is not
+guaranteed to be up to date after a move because it is the inode that
+is being monitored. Additionaly, none of the observed operations are
+guaranteed to have been performed on the filename inotifywait was
+instructed to monitor in cases when the file is known by several names
+in the filesystem.
.SH BUGS
There are race conditions in the recursive directory watching code
Index: inotify-tools/man/inotifywatch.1
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--- inotify-tools.orig/man/inotifywatch.1 2012-06-18 02:15:54.000000000 -0700
+++ inotify-tools/man/inotifywatch.1 2012-06-18 02:20:30.000000000 -0700
@@ -254,6 +254,15 @@
2 2 0 /home/rohan/.beagle/Indexes/KMailIndex/SecondaryIndex/
.fi
+.SH CAVEATS
+
+When using inotifywatch, the filename that is outputted is not
+guaranteed to be up to date after a move because it is the inode that
+is being monitored. Additionaly, none of the observed operations are
+guaranteed to have been performed on the filename inotifywatch was
+instructed to monitor in cases when the file is known by several names
+in the filesystem.
+
.SH BUGS
There are race conditions in the recursive directory watching code
which can cause events to be missed if they occur in a directory immediately
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