From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de>
Cc: 26126@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 20:36:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3w2gywc.fsf@detlef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgs2sobr.fsf@luca> (Andreas Politz's message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:32:08 +0100")
Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de> writes:
Hi Andreas,
> I took a deeper look filenotify.el and found some problems/have some
> further questions. Note that I use inotify.
>
> + A watched hard-link for some other file may not receive its events,
> due to string-equal being used for file-comparisons. Shouldn't
> file-equal be used instead ?
How does inotify (and the other libraries) work in this case? Does it
support hard links? We should not add more logic than the native
libraries offer.
> + Watching a /dir/file may receive events (e.g. touch /dir) for dir.
Could you pls give an example?
> + Why the seemingly arbitrary exclusion of backup-files in
> file-notify-callback ? What if someone wants to track the creation of
> said files ?
When a file under supervision is renamed during backup, the supervision
might be stopped. This case must be handled.
> + Why is the existence of kqueue checked for the handler in
> file-notify-add-watch ? After all we don't know how this handler will
> operate.
Why don't we know what kqueue does?
> -ap
Best rewgards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-18 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-16 14:14 bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches Andreas Politz
2017-03-17 14:41 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-17 14:59 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-17 16:08 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-17 17:45 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-18 8:30 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-18 13:32 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-18 19:36 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2017-03-18 20:37 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-19 9:39 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-19 11:14 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-19 19:23 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-20 20:39 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-21 8:44 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-21 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-21 18:59 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-22 13:23 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-22 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-22 16:01 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-22 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-22 16:23 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-24 19:54 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 12:50 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-25 13:59 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 14:08 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-25 16:27 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 16:37 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-25 17:12 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 18:36 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-25 19:34 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-26 7:08 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-21 15:56 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-22 12:56 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-22 17:34 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-22 18:49 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-19 22:05 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-21 13:05 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-21 15:06 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-21 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-22 13:17 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-22 17:43 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-22 18:57 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-22 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-23 7:36 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-23 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-23 16:10 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-22 19:40 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-24 20:44 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-25 8:57 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-25 16:34 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 14:04 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-25 16:19 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 17:09 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-25 17:26 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 18:18 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-25 18:40 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-25 16:21 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-18 19:28 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-18 19:49 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-18 20:48 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-30 18:15 ` Paul Eggert
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