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-.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.