From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 65904@debbugs.gnu.org, Zhang Haijun <ccsmile2008@outlook.com>
Subject: bug#65904: 29.1.50; autorevert can't revert files in a symlink directory
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:33:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs3ib3k1.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83cyymnsg4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:55:23 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Hi,
>> 0. emacs -Q
>> 1. use the following code to open an existing file in a symlink directory
>> (progn
>> (setq auto-revert-use-notify t
>> auto-revert-interval 3)
>> (global-auto-revert-mode 1)
>> (setq find-file-hook (delq 'vc-refresh-state find-file-hook))
>> (find-file "~/symlink_dir/test.txt"))
>>
>> 2. modify the test file in external program and save
>> 3. emacs doesn't autorevert the file
>
> AFAICT, we don't support autoreverting symlinks, since Dec 2013, so it
> sounds strange that you say it worked in Emacs 27.
>
> The relevant discussion is here:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-12/msg00282.html
>
> The reason for this non-support seems to be performance.
>
> I hope Michael (CC'ed) will be able to tell more about this.
Yes, we don't support autorevert of files in a symlinked directory via
file notifications. There are other bugs with the same topic, see
bug#16113, bug#18883 and bug#64061. I'll merge this bug with the other
ones.
> A workaround is to set auto-revert-use-notify to nil.
Yep.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-13 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-13 3:55 bug#65904: 29.1.50; autorevert can't revert files in a symlink directory Zhang Haijun
2023-09-13 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-13 13:12 ` zhanghj
2023-09-13 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-13 13:33 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2023-09-13 14:16 ` zhanghj
2023-09-14 11:58 ` Michael Albinus
2023-09-18 21:08 ` zhanghj
2023-09-19 7:18 ` Michael Albinus
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