I'm watching for events in the directory, and I seem to be missing something fundamental (and/or trivial). Here's how I do it:

while ($keepOnWatching) {
 $inotify->watch($watchpoint,IN_ALL_EVENTS);
 @events=$inotify->read;# sleep, and wake when events arrive
 # undef $inotify
 processEvents(@events);
}
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this works nice, except that it misses events that arrive while im in 'processEvents', the obvious fix would be this:

 $inotify->watch($watchpoint,IN_ALL_EVENTS);
while ($keepOnWatching) {
 @events=$inotify->read;# sleep, and wake when events arrive
 processEvents(@events);
}
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but this will use 100% cpu in 'processEvents', because some of the actions in processEvents get caught by inotify watch. I can't seem to figure out a way out of this conundrum, this looks to be similar to the problem speakerphone solves, I just don't know how to approach this.