<p>In particular, from the man page of inotify:</p>

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<p>... 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.</p>
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<p>And...</p>

<blockquote>
<p>... it does not catch remote events that occur on network filesystems.  (Applications must fall back to polling the filesystem to catch such events.)</p>
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