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inotify.7: Point out that inotify monitoring is inode based 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -270,6 +270,11 @@ when a file is renamed.
File or directory was opened.
.RE
.PP
Inotify monitoring is inode-based: when monitoring a file
(but not when monitoring the directory containing a file),
an event can be generated for activity on any link to the file
(in the same or a different directory).
When monitoring a directory:
.IP * 3
the events marked above with an asterisk (*) can occur both