From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:50:22 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <51AE0CBE.7080805@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87zjxxn6th.fsf@gmx.de> <83fvx7p1h4.fsf@gnu.org> <877gihc3qm.fsf@gmx.de> <83mwrd6c54.fsf@gnu.org> <87obbtaie8.fsf@gmx.de> <83bo7ozc0q.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjxxn6th.fsf@gmx.de> <87hajqpjn1.fsf@gmx.de> <8738t7pewc.fsf@gmx.de> <83fvx7p1h4.fsf@gnu.org> <877gihc3qm.fsf@gmx.de> <83mwrd6c54.fsf@gnu.org> <87obbtaie8.fsf@gmx.de> <83bo7ozc0q.fsf@gnu.org> <87bo7ngwj8.fsf@gmx.de> <83mwr7xm7b.fsf@gnu.org> <3d7gibw6sa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83bo7nxim8.fsf@gnu.org> <834ndfxh0g.fsf@gnu.org> <2cobbnt897.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ip1vq8wy.fsf@gmx.de> <51AD8D0A.5060209@cs.ucla.edu> <83li6px5wk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370361051 18143 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2013 15:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 15:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 04 17:50:50 2013 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 1UjtVZ-0002s4-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:50:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjtVZ-0007Wi-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjtVR-0007WY-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjtVL-00054f-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:38287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjtVG-00053M-JL; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC46A60002; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:50:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id c6KOHVeHnYbn; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-108-49-126.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.108.49.126]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5BADAA60001; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:50:28 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: <83li6px5wk.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:160078 Archived-At: On 06/04/2013 08:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > You mean, if the monitor address is something other than a pointer? > Or do you mean that the alignment of that pointer might be not enough > to ensure that all the tag bits are zero? The latter. Also, suppose we're using a host with MSB tags, or are compiling --with-wide-int. All of these could cause problems. > AFAIR at the time Stefan didn't like this alternative (or any other, > for that matter). I don't much like it either, but it's better than crashing. (Maybe I should dust off my bignum implementation? :-)