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 10:12:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83ip899fd7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6218185.ViukoKRdFp@descartes> <1604303.YKOVcvQH0F@descartes> <8738zd6n1t.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355213618 2894 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2012 08:13:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, sdl.web@gmail.com To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 09:13:51 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 1TiKyL-0000sR-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:13:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiKy8-0007gv-K4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:13:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiKy3-0007WZ-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiKxz-0002rP-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:13:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiKxz-0002rI-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:13:27 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MEU00H00XDIYT00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:12:43 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MEU00H9MXH6F0E0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:12:43 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <8738zd6n1t.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:155455 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:54:54 +0100 > Cc: R=FCdiger Sonderfeld , > =09Leo , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > For `inotify-rm-watch' that's not possible right now. It takes as > argument WATCH-DESCRIPTOR, which is not a file name, and which does= not > contain a file name. >=20 > Could we extend the interface of `inotify-rm-watch' to add a file n= ame? Why do you need an extension? This is Lisp: we could pass the file name _as_ the descriptor. Since the remote file handler will take care of the call anyway, it will assign the correct meaning to the descriptor. Am I missing something?