Hi! The documentation for inotify is a bit misleading (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html) It says when describing the "mask" field: IN_MOVED_FROM File moved out of watched directory (*). The description is not correct, since this event is also fired (on read()) when a file is moved *within* the same directory (to a new name) and is explicitly *not* *moved out* of the directory. It's not a big deal, of course, I just was confused about it recently. Ciao Felix Firmensitz: Muenchen Amtsgericht: AG Muenchen Handelsregister: HRB 144340 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Timothy James Daly, Jonathan Park, Martin Stecher Bankverbindung: ABN-Amro Bank N.V. Konto 671 211 9006 UST-ID: DE168122444 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html