I am using inotify on Linux to monitor a directory. My directory has 50 sub-directories and my directory tree is 20 level deep. I am able to monitor directory and all its sub directories till this point. I using C++ STL vector to save each directories path and their respective watch descriptor. When i add 8 or 10 new directories recursively i.e. add new 8-10 new level, i get notification about any event till 28th or 30th levels inside the directory tree. If i create a new directory inside 28th or 30th level than i do not get any notification.

Has any body faced this problem.

I'm not clear on your directory structure. Are you exceeding the watch limit?Also, I noticed in your other thread that you are using Qt ( qDebug() ). Have you tried using QFileSystemWatcher?

Yes you are correct about Qt. I did think about using QFileSystemWatcher but while i seraching for a solution I found that QFileSystemWatcher internally uses inotify to monitor directory changes. Using QFileSystemWatcher will only consume a little more memory. I want to monitor a large directory structure so using QFileSystemWatcher will cost me more memory if the directory structure is very large.
Also in my error check I am checking for ENOSPC that is return by inotify_add_watch(..) if maximum watch limit is exceeded;
So if I am exceeding the maximum watch limit then I will be notified by my application but i do not get maximum watch limit. My application just stops adding a new watch after i add few new level in my watch directory.

Below is my directory structure

LEVEL 1 watch directory
|
--------------------- ...... ---
| | |
LEVEL 2 dir1 dir2 ...... dir15
|
--------------
| |
LEVEL 3 dir1_1 dir1_2......
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
|
--------------
| |
LEVEL 30 dir1_30 dir1_30...

Watch directory
|
|`````````````````|......|-------------> LEVEL 1
dir1 dir2 dir15
|
|`````````````````|--------------------> LEVEL 2
dir1_2 dir1_2
.
.
.
.
|
|`````````````````|--------------------> LEVEL 30
dir1_30 dir1_30

Watch directory
--------|
|`````````````````|..........|-------------> LEVEL 1
dir1-------------dir2------dir15
--|
|`````````````````|--------------------> LEVEL 2
dir1_2----------dir1_2
.
.
.
.
---|
|`````````````````|--------------------> LEVEL 30
dir1_30-------dir1_30

You could try monitoring the directory with inotify-watch from inotify-tools to see if the problem is with your code or inotify.

If you post your code somewhere, I'll be happy to take a look.