[inotify] Prevent raising an exception when a file in a monitored fol…

…der has no permissions (#669, fixes #670)
gorakhargosh · Jun 21, 2020 · 4e5768b · 4e5768b
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diff --git a/src/watchdog/observers/inotify_c.py b/src/watchdog/observers/inotify_c.py
@@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ def _raise_error():
             raise OSError(errno.ENOSPC, "inotify watch limit reached")
         elif err == errno.EMFILE:
             raise OSError(errno.EMFILE, "inotify instance limit reached")
+        elif err == errno.EACCES:
+            # Prevent raising an exception when a file with no permissions
+            # changes
+            pass
         else:
             raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err))