To exclude individual files from a directory, place them under the policy IgnoreAll. Note that the existence of such files will still be checked (see next section).
To exclude subdirectories from a directory, place them under the policy IgnoreAll with an individual recursion depth of -1(see Section 4.5 ).
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| Changes in a directory may also modify the directory
        inode itself (i.e. the special file that holds the
        directory information). If you want to check all but a few
        files in a directory (say, 
         
 [ReadOnly] # dir=/etc # [Attributes] # # less restrictive policy for the directory file itself # file=/etc # [IgnoreAll] # # exclude these file and directories # file=/etc/resolv.conf.save dir=-1/etc/calendar # 
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