Did more testing. Looks like the perldoc is wrong. The $inotify->poll needs to be called AFTER the $inotify->watch routines are set!</p.

Thanks Animator for making me rethink how I was calling it.

I think you're referring to the following snippet:

 # for Event:
 Event->io (fd =>$inotify->fileno, poll => 'r', cb => sub { $inotify->
+poll });
 # for Glib:
 add_watch Glib::IO $inotify->fileno, in => sub { $inotify->poll };
 # manually:
 1 while $inotify->poll;
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These are three separate ways of creating a loop for $inotify->poll. Yup, I tried all three ways. I'm using the third method to isolate the issue.

Thanks though