Your snark is unwarranted. While+stat in a loop is a poll loop in userspace, inotify is a push mechanism in kernel space. My point was that the additional func

Your snark is unwarranted. While+stat in a loop is a poll loop in userspace, inotify is a push mechanism in kernel space. My point was that the additional functionality of this significantly-sized package beyond running inotify+md5+make in a shell script was unclear.