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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:28:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lifi1hmm.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv626mxu06.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> > I have no intention to rip out polling.  Rather I hope that the
>>> > higher-level API we come up with can be implemented by any of Windows's
>>> > low-level API, inotify, MacOSX's equvalent, or polling.
>>> ... which is what I hoped to hear.
>> Plus combinations of the above, as needed.  Right?
>
> If someone bothers to implement it, why not, tho I'm not sure how
> important that would be (unless that patch can automatically figure out
> when to use which).

In theory, it is possible to automatically figure out when to use
polling and when to use the OS notification features. But if inotify
doesn't work on some filesystems, we need a method for detecting those
filesystems. Does inotify report "I don't work on this" when it is used
on those unsupported filesystems?

Eli and I discussed the high level Lisp API for filesystem
notifications. I think it is compatible with polling, in the sense that
it can transparently fall back to polling, once the issue mentioned on
the previous paragraph is addressed.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-07 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-03 22:34 [PATCH] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-04  8:52 ` joakim
2011-06-04 16:40   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-04 10:43 ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-04 23:36   ` [PATCH update2] " Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05  5:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05  9:48       ` [PATCH update3] " Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05  7:48     ` [PATCH update2] " Jan Djärv
2011-06-05  7:54     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-06-05  9:49       ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05 15:59         ` John Yates
2011-06-05 16:14           ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05 16:58             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-06 18:56               ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-06 19:57                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-04 11:30 ` [PATCH] " Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-04 17:13   ` [PATCH updated] " Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-04 19:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-04 20:10     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-06-04 23:43       ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05  2:15         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-06-05  9:22           ` Štěpán Němec
2011-06-15 20:53             ` Johan Bockgård
2011-06-16  8:52               ` Inlined cl functions -- how to learn about them Štěpán Němec
2011-06-06 15:21       ` [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Stefan Monnier
2011-06-06 16:25         ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-06 17:11           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-06 20:16             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07 14:42               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-07 16:46                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07 18:06                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-07 18:26                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-24  0:50             ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-24 10:19               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-24 12:18                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-06 13:36               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 15:54                 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-06 18:30                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 20:39                     ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-06 19:14                   ` wide-int crash [was Re: [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify)] Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 22:31                     ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-07 19:43               ` [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 13:06                 ` [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-09-28 14:13                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 16:27                     ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-10-01  4:38                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01  7:24                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 14:09                         ` [PATCH] Added inotify support Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-10-01 16:27                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-02 21:28                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-02 23:46                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-03  2:10                               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03  3:54                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 12:46                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 18:34                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 18:47                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 19:08                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 20:59                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-12 13:54                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-14 14:55                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 19:33                                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-05  7:40                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-05 13:07                                           ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-05 15:19                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-05 16:55                                 ` Nix
2012-10-05 17:15                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-05 17:46                                     ` Nix
2012-10-05 18:22                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-05 18:30                                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-06 16:39                                     ` Nix
2012-10-06 17:01                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-06 18:51                                         ` Nix
2012-10-06 21:26                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-06 21:28                                             ` Nix
2012-10-07  7:38                                               ` Achim Gratz
2012-10-07 13:58                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-07 14:54                                                   ` Achim Gratz
2012-10-07  8:24                                               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-07 14:00                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-07 14:28                                                   ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2012-10-07 14:38                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-08  7:07                                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-08  8:06                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-14 15:52                                           ` Jim Meyering
2012-10-06  7:04                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-06  7:23                                     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-06 16:41                                       ` Nix
2012-10-07  8:09                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-07 14:08                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03  3:57                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-02 20:08                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-03 17:18                             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-10 14:16                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 14:47                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-10 11:52                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 12:11                             ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-12-11  7:43                             ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11  8:20                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 16:36                                 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 16:46                                   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-12-11 20:17                                     ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11  7:54                         ` [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support Michael Albinus
2012-12-11  8:12                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11  8:19                             ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11  8:29                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11  8:44                                 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11  9:39                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 10:15                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 10:38                                       ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 10:24                                     ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 12:51                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 13:17                                         ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 13:23                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-12  1:09                                         ` Leo
2012-12-12  3:57                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-07 11:33                                     ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-07 15:57                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-07 16:00                                         ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-07 20:26                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08  7:44                                             ` Michael Albinus
2011-06-06 15:14     ` [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Stefan Monnier
2011-06-06 16:21       ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-09-18 11:50 ` [PATCH] " Leo
2012-09-26 12:15   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-09-26 17:52     ` Stefan Monnier

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