From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Jenkner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kqueue in Emacs 25.1? Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 13:38:51 +0100 Message-ID: <85wpts3btw.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: <86zizdczhp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <871tc315y3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83k2pvqg0l.fsf@gnu.org> <87io5ddh7c.fsf_-_@gmx.de> <85pozlj1wp.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <85lha9j1j2.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <563EECAA.6000100@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446986356 3761 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2015 12:39:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 12:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 08 13:39:06 2015 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 1ZvPFR-00021r-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 13:39:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvPFQ-0002mU-S1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 07:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60507) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvPFM-0002mP-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 07:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvPFH-0002SZ-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 07:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from b2bfep16.mx.upcmail.net ([62.179.121.61]:49237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvPFH-0002ST-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 07:38:55 -0500 Original-Received: from edge11.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.81]) by b2bfep16.mx.upcmail.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.18 201-2260-151-151-20140610) with ESMTP id <20151108123853.MFWY9629.b2bfep16-int.chello.at@edge11.upcmail.net> for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2015 13:38:53 +0100 Original-Received: from iznogoud.viz ([91.119.133.190]) by edge11.upcmail.net with edge id f0es1r00R46eDrP0B0es9q; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 13:38:53 +0100 X-SourceIP: 91.119.133.190 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvPFE-0000JM-Eh; Sun, 08 Nov 2015 13:38:52 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <563EECAA.6000100@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 7 Nov 2015 22:33:14 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 62.179.121.61 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:193603 Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 07 2015, Paul Eggert wrote: > Can you elaborate on why this is an issue? I wasn't talking of emacs here. I just meant that applications in general don't expect an extra thread after calling inotify_init(), because there is none on GNU/Linux (I think). The special situation that I had in mind was a glitch in inotifywatch due to this, see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204366