On Apr 21, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:

What happens is that the text path that you put in a watch is a human 
convenience. The kernel doesn't understand strings, it understands numbers. It 
changes the path into device and inode information.

Cool. So I am guessing the rule works even if someone creates a hard link to the same watched path and access files through that other path?

Todd