Bug#706458: ITP: inotify-hookable -- blocking command-line interface to inotify

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
>   Description     : blocking command-line interface to inotify
> 
> inotify-hookable is a program that monitor files with Linux inotify. This
> program accepts options to specify the files to be monitored and the command
> to run when a file has changed (based in kernel inotify)
> 
> Example:
> 
>  inotify-hookable -f foo.c -c 'gcc -o foo foo.c'

Can you briefly explain its relation to the existing package
inotify-tools and why another implementation is needed? Prospective
users searching for an inotify tool, will likely see both. How do they
decide which one fits their needs?

Helmut