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Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:27:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83leqzkxdi.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:49:45 +0300") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:C6WOaJCbfIt4lsWuO4+NEsaevRe5Np618+r99/rsLQOsoQAweMN d/XC9ycIHb4/JHdj3bq/Zvp190T0+W3wApcQHougfVit0J4g8ZO4zVsYRnGBGByRJLKjxLI 9a21soI9kbmE9jcRJjFV9XEKju2Yr00OMRpO737LBl+qSGbrTqWiQW5/rW+0N5TtT2c50gn x/PUe3+1M12fukJhVLRgA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:uYqIXeXx/pw=:ObVj7oSJLfckW7rrTkcrm+ VEFf93zo8UytKBTgwjKxFA1IZPDbypAKfEb2cbEALnPlejVv5nh4w6Ot/RqXuXcO28jED4C62 cxEB2vAyuzk6Vyf4LR26c14iIbmae4Ya8XQbmrJtyUOp/PSkFSKq08+41CEAXsmJWPiOhRhXc M+zRnK8/jR77nTTQEEZx4Ml5lyeZGf8DYvLrop6QsHHf237Fly1E+P66wC8YbF/sLrdFriiDB +z7+/4iRKwb3o60lEiac7MBW++2e4YpYD0kKSKlZ4W4JsPd5hhhLY8eOqgifaW/oEGj4H/kBv RjLkfbqL1ojsMyHafexj5qaDJCsVPZxqrFW0ea9FVXt9PQkCN8lIiayklMiYuIPtNTnRaJt3K xkinCOf+85imunvx0VvKgN/PcOBNhlbhyGqp82v7eZjbboHkWJlnD+65/nX1qCuVyofDabB41 c3WjIcxrAaYsUHDErKlFoHbQjLP2UVGyC0CO81KIfqoJvprHboyzqQ6wlpV1SHfjMrOczLbec zPRBDADtoQuq/azgM9Gr6SLLIirNyb1YEyC/f/8fbOhmqJgTjndpbZ47i6mNwd/OX7HrQW7Nv AgfVyU9gQm+LfLAYaNAvRfez3K/2wP1eKYF19SisQmx7PvU0ZrnXBYPHNefffrnJkb9ZhJvNr zazXB1GpxPVSLg6fSwjjx4PjfXWHs6C3LAC+23J335G8J3jEW+JNoKJvBQYXPuz2rw/wCbCU+ INO1eaHyu3Kae/X7KBFKvT89lw9YNjGEXWi0UKiGBPODyR1D4I7R/hHuujjX1NVHN96MFNIt 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:242868 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: Hi Eli, >> Yep. I guess you'll care about w32notify.c. and I'll check inotify.c, >> kqueue.c and gfilenotify.c? > > Yes. So everything is tested, the cases mentioned above as well as the remote inotifywait and gio variants. Everything works as expected except kqueue, where I get an EMLINK error when running file-notify-add-watch on a symlink file. Needs further investigation, but unfortunately, while testing, my FreeBSD 12 VM has crashed with an unrecoverable error. So I need to install a new VM first. 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. WDYT? Best regards, Michael.