From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-revert/notify behavior changed?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 08:03:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czgadsh5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu9mwngl.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> (message from Yuri D'Elia on Wed, 18 May 2022 23:16:42 +0200)
> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 23:16:42 +0200
>
> I'm using auto-revert-mode for a few specific files (the mode is enabled
> via dir-locals.el).
>
> A few months ago the files were reverted pretty much instantaneously
> when changes occurred on disk, as expected.
>
> This doesn't seem to be the case in the current master anymore despite
> me not changing or seeing anything related in the latest changes in
> autorevert.el.
Can you be a bit more quantitative here? What is the auto-revert
delays you see now, and what were they before?
> Setting a shorter auto-revert-interval seems to work, which (I guess)
> notifications are not working as expected, despite these buffers being
> associated to boring regular files.
So if you set auto-revert-avoid-polling to nil, files aren't
auto-reverted at all?
It is easy to check whether notifications work: e.g., use the test
suite.
> I double-checked my config, and emacs is always built with notification
> support (inotify).
>
> I'm not sure where to start looking...
Could it be that something in your system changed, something related
to inotify?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-19 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-18 21:16 Auto-revert/notify behavior changed? Yuri D'Elia
2022-05-19 5:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-19 7:20 ` Michael Albinus
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