Monitor attribute changes too

I'm a bit worried this might cause infinite loops, since we change
attributes in the callback as well.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/bin/inotifymask b/bin/inotifymask
index d5bfcb0..fcceecb 100644
--- a/bin/inotifymask
+++ b/bin/inotifymask
@@ -46,8 +46,12 @@ my $cb = sub {
     # Get the mode we want for the file, masking off irrelevant file type bits
     my $mode = $stat->mode & $STAT_MASK;
 
+    #
     # Check that at least one bit of the mask coincides with one bit of the
-    # present mode, i.e. that we'll be changing anything
+    # present mode, i.e. that we'll be changing anything; this is important
+    # because we might otherwise get misleading log entries, and maybe even an
+    # infinite loop...!
+    #
     $mode & $mask
       or return;
 
@@ -62,7 +66,7 @@ my $cb = sub {
 # Create object and set up watches with callback, start polling
 my $in = Linux::Inotify2->new;
 for (@files) {
-    $in->watch( $_, IN_CREATE | IN_MOVED_TO, $cb );
+    $in->watch( $_, IN_ATTRIB | IN_CREATE | IN_MOVED_TO, $cb );
 }
 while (1) {
     $in->poll;