From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nix Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support. Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:46:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87haq8vmkw.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> References: <2181827.T3JxG88qQt@descartes> <83lifoa7hr.fsf@gnu.org> <87obkkcu92.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lifkvoxl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <83sj9s7sc8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349459201 9103 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2012 17:46:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 19:46:46 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 1TKBz2-0005WA-UM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:46:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58295 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKByx-0007jw-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:46:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKByu-0007id-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKByp-0003lK-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:60953 helo=mail.esperi.org.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKByj-0003k7-Gi; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from spindle.srvr.nix (nix@spindle.srvr.nix [192.168.14.15]) by mail.esperi.org.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q95HkN2l026377; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:46:23 +0100 Emacs: the Swiss Army of Editors. In-Reply-To: <83sj9s7sc8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:15:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-dcc1-Metrics: spindle 1182; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 81.187.191.129 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:154091 Archived-At: On 5 Oct 2012, Eli Zaretskii stated: >> Of course you can't rely on inotify rather than polling, because inotify >> simply silently omits all changes that come from other hosts when an fs >> is mounted or exported over the network. inotify and friends are only >> spying on local VFS traffic > > If this is true (I don't see this limitation in the inotify(7) man > page), it is specific to inotify. The MS-Windows equivalents work for > exported filesystems as well. Yeah, it's specific to inotify/dnotify and anything built atop the fsnotify Linux kernel subsystem. It is really annoying for those of us with $HOME on NFS :( I periodically wish I had the time to write something better, but it's quite hard. -- NULL && (void)