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inotify.7: A monitoring process can't easily distinguish events triggered by itself 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.TH INOTIFY 7 2012-04-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH INOTIFY 7 2013-02-25 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
inotify \- monitoring file system events
.SH DESCRIPTION
@ -409,6 +409,10 @@ This can take a significant amount time for large directory trees.
The inotify API provides no information about the user or process that
triggered the inotify event.
In particular, there is no easy
way for a process that is monitoring events via inotify
to distinguish events that it triggers
itself from those that are triggered by other processes.
Note that the event queue can overflow.
In this case, events are lost.