inotifywait should use the "close_write" event instead of "create" #64
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With the "create" event inotifywait gets triggered as soon as the file is created, which means that if a file is still being transfered for example with scp, inotifywait gets triggered and the file is being submitted to caronte, but the file is incomplete and shows an EOF error. With "close_write" inotifywait gets triggered only when the transfer is completed, so the pcap is fed correctly to caronte
As the inotifywait docs say: