From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New file notification event `stopped'
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:35:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737xihmni.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fv1isyez.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:25:40 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Imagine you have a file under supervision in auto-revert-mode. If the
>> watch is broken or removed (by a *-rm-watch call), autorevert could
>> still work due to the polling mechanism in autorevert.el.
>
> Shouldn't it be possible to test the validity from time to time?
autorevert.el, like all other packages using file notifications, could
install timers for watched files or directories, checking whether there
are still valid watches. Many timers, and all users of file notification
need to do the same. It would be a polling behaviour.
The charm of the `stopped' event would be, that all of this is not
necessary. Just an event to be handled in the package's file
notification handler, that's it.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-10 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-27 9:08 New file notification event `stopped' Michael Albinus
2015-10-10 10:13 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-10 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-10 11:56 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-10 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-10 13:35 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2015-10-10 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-10 14:35 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-25 13:21 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-25 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-25 22:35 ` Michael Albinus
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