From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:03:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioj3m6ah.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4munbkej.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:54:48 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> By the way, if in some hypothetical future we drop support for inotify
>> in favor of glib, then we don't need to do the thing where we monitor a
>> file's directory instead of the file itself, as described here:
>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-01/msg00178.html
>
>> glib already does this, so emacs doing too is an unnecessary
>> complication and a form of wheel-reinventing.
>
> Interesting. Another point in favor of dropping inotify support,
There are people who do not want glib linked with Emacs.
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-29 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-25 20:17 gfile-based file notifications are not immediate Dima Kogan
2014-10-26 7:55 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-26 13:12 ` Ken Brown
2014-10-28 21:33 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-10-29 1:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 2:23 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-29 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 12:03 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2014-10-29 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:11 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-29 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 16:28 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-29 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 15:16 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 17:10 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 17:40 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-30 18:04 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 18:11 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-30 19:21 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-30 19:39 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-30 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:00 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-10-30 19:12 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-10-30 20:32 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-10-31 21:28 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-11-02 14:15 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-11-02 15:50 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-26 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-26 17:07 ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-26 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-26 16:41 ` Michael Albinus
2014-10-28 0:32 ` Dima Kogan
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