From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support. Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:23:31 +0200 Message-ID: <834njsafjg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6218185.ViukoKRdFp@descartes> <1604303.YKOVcvQH0F@descartes> <8738zd6n1t.fsf@gmx.de> <83ip899fd7.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5h557cx.fsf@gmx.de> <83fw3d9elh.fsf@gnu.org> <87pq2h5660.fsf@gmx.de> <83ehix9bcs.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9tk6g49.fsf@gmx.de> <836248ah0u.fsf@gnu.org> <871uew6847.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355232235 8443 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2012 13:23:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, sdl.web@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 14:24:08 2012 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 1TiPoe-00050L-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:24:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiPoS-0000IM-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:23:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiPoJ-0000HH-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:23:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiPoB-00062B-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:23:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:37429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiPoA-00061y-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MEV00M00BTXGB00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:23:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MEV00K83BVCSST0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:23:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <871uew6847.fsf@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:155467 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:17:28 +0100 > Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, sdl.web@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> For me, it would be sufficient to regard Tramp handlers as an extension > >> to inotify-add-watch and inotify-rm-watch, and not as a third backend in > >> parallel to two others. > > > > But then inotify-*-watch primitives will have to be able to be > > compiled on platforms where HAVE_INOTIFY is not defined. Currently, > > this is impossible, so what you regard as sufficient would limit this > > feature to GNU/Linux users and remote files on other GNU/Linux > > systems. I don't think such a limitation is desirable. > > I've implemented a quick shot what's possible just now. I understand, and thank you for doing this.