imfile inotify handling improved: safer systems, lower rsyslog impact
Large imfile deployments can put pressure on Linux inotify resources. In practice, running out of inotify watches is very uncommon, but when it does happen, the consequences used to be unpleasant and system-wide.

To address this properly, we completed a single improvement delivered in two steps: treat inotify usage as a bounded, shared system resource while keeping rsyslog itself as unaffected as possible.
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