From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support. Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:30:50 +0200 Message-ID: <878vbkbwkl.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <2181827.T3JxG88qQt@descartes> <83lifoa7hr.fsf@gnu.org> <87obkkcu92.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lifkvoxl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349461879 629 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2012 18:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:31:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 20:31:24 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 1TKCg6-0007NI-7C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:31:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43926 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKCg0-0006lB-Fa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKCfy-0006l5-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKCfx-0004yz-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKCfx-0004yu-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKCfy-0007CJ-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:31:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 161.red-83-34-29.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.34.29.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:31:06 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 161.red-83-34-29.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:31:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 161.red-83-34-29.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O3+rps8klN20t2YuJrFB02mKfZ0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:154093 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> inotify and friends are only spying on local VFS traffic, which in my >> experience makes them less than useful for most applications. > > Aren't they used by most GUI file managers? For ages, on my Kubuntu machines the usual file managers (Dolphin & Konqueror) usually fail to notice changes on directories (most annoyingly, file creation). Dunno if this is a KDE problem or something about the underlying mechanism.