From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57536: 28.1; filenotify problems on macOS with symbolic links to directories Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 16:53:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83k062150s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <890113EA-44AF-42FB-87AF-130D7AB164AD@easesoftware.com> <83edwuqome.fsf@gnu.org> <87h71nbc2v.fsf@gmx.de> <83mtbfl1z5.fsf@gnu.org> <87czcbb4gh.fsf@gmx.de> <83leqzkxdi.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8pmw2pa.fsf@gmx.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13917"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: pedz@easesoftware.com, 57536@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 17 15:54:10 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYGo-0003QY-0q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:54:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58244 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYGm-0001sx-Ql for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYGg-0001sp-6K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYGf-0005R6-Uc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYGf-00081d-Pg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:54:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 13:54:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57536 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 57536-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57536.166342282530825 (code B ref 57536); Sat, 17 Sep 2022 13:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57536) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Sep 2022 13:53:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45400 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYGO-000816-5R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35552) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYGA-00080c-U1 for 57536@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYG5-0005Nm-Er; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:53:25 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=1BjZdD0pmvfpgmzyJt0y4eXhN+ZQMieIclM14+jGKcw=; b=JTOJlQrOxqUj xsIm92bU/LfeePUgeUbOm4Y/w3O0jn952rROur92GACvD6yXEI+FW4vSNrK6ogq9pq5SghFsjNhhu RANFFMyX9fWfLoptBLb36+DdI3ZCFLXXlznv9p8iNfsdCtRjNQ6OGoyQ3r5TpCTrlA9Fe/aMABP7n p/nN1sRAsnkiBx9iuLBAlZCnznJIbr4C6qoq18MHLY2kshUA8o59lOMi3vgAsGr2R8OULiYMR3DjG R/mCzg9hWXJON8a1tUl+bhFtt+FlW8CbAYq1kG84Sa8rC+YNU3fkU5o50wXqAMDlFbihgC2EwguMK cMrj/hm5SQYEEXKrkuYqow==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4657 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZYG4-0001Mu-SY; Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:53:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v8pmw2pa.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:27:45 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:242871 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Cc: pedz@easesoftware.com, 57536@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:27:45 +0200 > > Besides this, do we want to extend file notifications to follow symlinks > when indicated? As said already, we could add a new symbol `follow' to > be used in the FLAGS argument for that function. Implementation shall be > simple for inotify and w32notify; for the other backends it needs to be > investigated. I'm not sure this is needed: clients can always resolve the symlinks themselves, no? I'd start by documenting that we no longer follow symlinks when watching: that's a kind-of incompatible change. Then I'd go by complaints, if any.