From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:26:01 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87hb811osm.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <201106040034.15598.ruediger@c-plusplus.de> <8762olmk6y.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <201106061825.25078.ruediger@c-plusplus.de> <871uz6hg1d.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87boy9oahp.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307471859 5805 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2011 18:37:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 18:37:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 07 20:37:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QU19i-0001wW-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:37:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QU19h-00087M-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QU0ym-0004oU-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QU0yk-0004bA-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:26:16 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QU0yk-0004az-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QU0yi-0005Hl-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:26:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:26:12 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:26:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9b9g3H/YMFEKvxaUoHuwJkroH98= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:140272 Archived-At: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:06:51 -0300 Stefan Monnier wrote: SM> That doesn't sound right to me. At least I'm having trouble figuring SM> out how to bend my mind such that this file-watcher matches (even SM> coarsely) the concept of a "future". SM> [...] >> So `file-watch' would return >> (make-url-future :value (lambda () (unwatch file here)) >> :errorback (lambda (&rest d) (handle unwatch errors)) >> :callback (lambda (f) (arbitrary callback))) SM> I'm not saying you can't twist the code so that it works, but it SM> makes no sense at the conceptual level [...] It's just a completely SM> wrong analogy. So you're cautiously in favor, then? ;) Ted