Is there anything about the nature of inotify’s inotifywait
that would result in unpredictable behavior (or predictable problems) when running two or more scripts that each uses inotifywait
to watch the same file or set of files?
Or is it safe/ok, technically, to have multiple scripts using inotifywait
on the same files?
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Answer
Yes, it is safe. inotify is a Linux kernel API which allows concurency.