inotify and recursion

[Hugo Florentino]

Hi,

By any chance has anyone linked against libnotify so as to monitor 
certain changes in a directory and subdirectories, and act according to 
event?
I am thinking in combining this with fossil [1] to automatically 
document changes in /etc

My main concern is that (if I undestand it correctly), inotify requires 
a file descriptor for every object watched, and if a directory has many 
files this could probably have an impact on performance, or do you know 
if just by using the directory I want to monitor, everything within it 
will also be watched?

Also, I have never linked before against a Linux library and inotify 
does not seem particularly easy because of the file descriptors, so if 
someone has linked against this library and has a sample code, I would 
very much appreciate if you could share it.

Regards, Hugo

[1] www.fossil-scm.org