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  • What's the default include/exclude list (empty so nothing is included, I think)? If you include /a, exclude /a/b and include /a/b/c, is /a/b/c watched? Does including a directory always include its contents? Commented May 25, 2011 at 22:32
  • @Gilles It doesn't know anything about directories, it just takes the complete absolute path and matches it against the regular expression. So <include extension="/a" uid="*" action=".*" retname=".*" /> is going to match every operation that operates on a file whose path contains /a -- it could even be /foo/abc/bar. You probably want to anchor them all with ^ and $, but then you need to include the entire path for it to match Commented May 25, 2011 at 22:37
  • @Gilles Not having any rules is actually a special case, so I'll add it to the answer Commented May 25, 2011 at 22:38