From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:28:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20141031172852.6e308217@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <87mw8jg9a1.fsf@secretsauce.net> <87ioj3m6ah.fsf@gmx.de> <851tprvuvc.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <24394175.Yx8cizKBtK@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414790970 18208 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 21:29:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Wolfgang Jenkner , Michael Albinus , Stefan Monnier , Dima Kogan , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 22:29:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJl9-0008IL-Cb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:29:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44100 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJl8-00023d-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJkd-0001wN-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJkc-0007DK-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:28:55 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:50820) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJkc-0007D1-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6201D14CE; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:28:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143002DE087; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:28:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <24394175.Yx8cizKBtK@descartes> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176177 Archived-At: On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:32:30 +0100 R=C3=BCdiger Sonderfeld wrote: > Glib already seems to use several hacks to work around the > limitations of kqueue As a aside: people keep mentioning that they believe kqueue has some sort of fundamental limitations. I'm curious what those are perceived to be. So far as I can tell, the interface is fine -- it is a rough equivalent to what you can do in Linux with epoll (which is currently preferred over select and its successors). Perry --=20 Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com