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Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:17:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83ttvauvrj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:29:52 +0300") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:JDYFP+wdpd7jVNzed4pY7BTMu7sh04XF89labW4xvfmZN6/Y6xD ioUZtkJqUI+GVd6zYzxOw/znoUlSNjZfzAtG7YHFpvrYlOe3Xj7q+2ZWb49Ek6WkxeR0jr4 rGtGWH4bBCxCpDGcSGSW1PYdXeJOTzYEkMXR6zR95CLpbgwKlywSwHyvZrUitg4H6GeASfE nSbm5qEtcqlsDdC1M09xw== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:YvznxRzWDUY=;yPwlhpCBN3u5yUvagy5EUNiiEEK QHAq96Eu2KgGiN9irbfd6jRA3w9dPZcgsGMx4NGdaWAtdZ+NoWp1/I+Ol9qteCmyHoyxurPcG mxXNd+kvFiBAP1Va4ZpsgopCowGbHaaWkY1Rf+LzIkZbgxwTd0j8jT/M8iTLx6mwCqWfclGgP KGgmYpiMUgdWdmluopz2ZJ1tCgSPtwel8O0M2VsUpHkEaLuwwI+jxxcOJj71kvsugHLU/DB+A U9ma63khUTlBBYfHXLFdeW91pd3rctuqd3BkIEHYhb/f1czGi34KKUYQry6yfmBqEwzgkgPLf uIJyJZhiwq1JE6QZB/Owo+uEMtelyMrKP4W7BpFyG0Qtrf3ygczKdO73hYmijSs6ps1DSPZez I4R9z1iTb1XzxKs7cy5Yhk3G5+6atSSnAmO5lAX7QAzN0nXTXWmXldJ/3RE+yGhzM4svTkxGY bRU37fMKpJLY4y8GarL1jiq+cuc4TH6zdMX4oJ0RsYIVvg+FQ9gSO/kTMdHFEuxfBiTeBnw/K /1b+z965QM1AtI5+vurD+ZZ9O5hSoNtqXt0dZsGqoDIHUGSlXAqsVCbb8DSizFPZzyX8oI1fH Y24vdANUiFJPDEHs8SXlaCS18pZNo6CoRZf9Ts5IptsU73dWHbTopyVYbaDIuQUbqR6UBfNW8 KJTSZ6ks4hFuTsL+a11FmeoPl+JY5WmZs5gtHoLrH1dl/Suy8kaxqq8R+4wRYQeBvsVQ+E5bH D4XU4C0/RxfXiF0XCEQa24KRVXcPL7qf+BclcmhxNcRxuxIIVT1my6iAXxc0d8rG2mzid6uO 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:263459 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: Hi, >> cd /tmp/ >> mkdir foo >> ln -s foo bar >> touch bar/test.txt >> emacs bar/test.txt & >> in emacs: M-x auto-revert-mode RET >> then in bash >> echo "test001" >> bar/test.txt >> >> Emacs will never see those changes and will not revert the buffer. >> However, opening foo/text.txt does not have this problem. >> >> I tried inotifywait -m on both foo/text.txt, and on bar/text.txt, and >> both seem to receive editing events as they should. > > Emacs watches the directory of the file, not the file itself. Does > inotify report events when you watch the directory of that file? Does > auto-revert-mode work for that file if you disable > auto-revert-use-notify? > > I'm guessing inotify doesn't report such directories, or reports them > under a name we don't recognize, which would mean that we need another > condition for not activating file-watch for files whose directory is a > symlink. This is a duplicate of bug#16113 and bug#18883, I've merged them with this bug. I'll see whether I could work on this next time (matter of time)= . Best regards, Michael.