From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file watch feature missing on darwin Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:12:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87mwjigyox.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87sitahfjc.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388416366 31543 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2013 15:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Leo Liu , emacs-devel To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 30 16:12:49 2013 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 1VxeWO-0005OV-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:12:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxeWN-0006qu-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:12:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxeWF-0006jB-5W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxeW9-0005k0-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:60091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxeW9-0005jh-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([93.209.87.169]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0LmK3e-1VOrzp2VwA-00ZtzN for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:12:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Dj\=C3\=A4rv\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:44:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:Ndks3b0gZOopj0YEo4uzV7sQLusgUsK5oqUQaatXOco62GZEwkl auYHfAmegoIdj7/WhTQilO0hESGpgvyjCrjSypDI7+BONhQOgkGOBtZgdKZKV0FjhzsY+p2 ZGB7Wb/qRerxCC7ytCESriFo32HcXLeygZGafdj9z0GIs68R1VrhXLWe0oMa/Ey1tMhxrXw jxJXvn+jg5Ipuw/tG4SnA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 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:166994 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: > Hello. Hi, >> According to the Changelogs, kqueue has been added as native library to >> GIO a year a go. If you have linked Emacs to a recent (*) glib on your >> Darwin system, file monitoring shall be available for you. > > It would not work if linking in Glib to a NS build due to differences > in event loops. Well, I didn't know that. So we need a native kqueue integration into Emacs. On a related topic, I plan to write an alternative to dbusbind.c. That alternative shall use gdbus instead of libdbus. But this would mean that this alternatvive D-Bus bindings couldn't be used for NS builds. Sad. > Jan D. Best regards, Michael.