I'm using following code: 
        $inotify->watch ($watchdir, IN_ALL_EVENTS) or die "watch creat
+ion failed" ;
        $0="cping: watch ready, waiting for activity (".scalar(localti
+me()).")...";
        my @events = $inotify->read;

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the line $inotify->read; is blocking, which is nice, since it doesn't burn CPU when there is nothing to do. But, now I need to run code, when there was no activity for longer then $timelimit; I could switch to non-blocking calls, ie use something like this: 
 $inotify->blocking(0);
 ...
 $inotify->read;
 sleep 1s;
 if ($idle>$timelimit) {
   code();
 };

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but then my code starts burning CPU AND becomes less responsive ( blocking code has much better then a 1 second latency with reacting to activity in $watchdir ). Is there any way out?

In reply to Blocking call with time limit ( Linux::Inotify2 ) by Eyck

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