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inotify.7: Add a further limitation of API under NOTES 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -383,6 +383,9 @@ to monitor subdirectories under a directory,
additional watches must be created.
This can take a significant amount time for large directory trees.
The inotify API provides no information about the user or process that
triggered the inotify event.
Note that the event queue can overflow.
In this case, events are lost.
Robust applications should handle the possibility