Don't scan subdirectory of excluded path

[geekli]

hi, here is the directory structure of '/tmp/site/'

├── data                      
│   ├── da2                   
│   │   └── fs                
│   └── img1                  
│       ├── a.jpg             
│       ├── b.jpg             
│       └── ff                
│           └── fd  
│      ..
│      .... many many directorys  
│
├── data2
│   └── a1                    
└── data3
      └── b1                    

data has thousands of subdirectory in it . I want to monitor /tmp/site/ data2 and data3 except data

e = ['^/tmp/site/data']
# it will be exclude all ,no problem

e = ['^/tmp/site/data$']
''' `data2` and `data3` will be watched ,and it exclude 'data'.
    But the subdir of 'data' will be watched too.
'''
e = ['^/tmp/site/data$','^/tmp/site/data/.*']
''' I add another rule `/tmp/site/data/.*` 
    it's work as i expected ;
'''
vm.add_watch('/tmp/site/', mask, exclude_filter=pyinotify.ExcludeFilter(e))

i read the source class WatchManager add_watch() will walk all subdir first (may be take very longtime ),then check if it needs to be excluded.

is it possible that if i exclude data ,subdir of data wouldn't walk() anymore then subdir wouldn't be watched.

[blueyed]

Makes sense. Do you have tried to create a patch for this yourself by any chance already?