From f7538a63b57885a23483aa3d63ebc6d23060a9c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Falldog <falldog7@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 21:29:50 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix the issue : watch & unwatch the same folder on Windows
 may cause exception "Access Denied" should close the dir handle

---
 src/watchdog/observers/winapi.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/watchdog/observers/winapi.py b/src/watchdog/observers/winapi.py
index ff99a5009..eb5f37299 100644
--- a/src/watchdog/observers/winapi.py
+++ b/src/watchdog/observers/winapi.py
@@ -281,8 +281,12 @@ def get_directory_handle(path):
 def close_directory_handle(handle):
     try:
         CancelIoEx(handle, None)  # force ReadDirectoryChangesW to return
+        CloseHandle(handle)       # close directory handle
     except WindowsError:
-        return
+        try:
+            CloseHandle(handle)   # close directory handle
+        except:
+            return
 
 
 def read_directory_changes(handle, recursive):