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From: Dima Kogan <lists@dima.secretsauce.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Clarification about auto-revert-mode and inotify
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:00:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbnd9aab.fsf@secretsauce.net> (raw)

Hi.

I'm running an emacs recently built from source, and the
auto-revert-mode functionality is confusing to me.

I configured with --with-file-notification=inotify. With this I would
expect auto-revert-mode buffers to be updated immediately, possibly with
some throttling. I do not observe this; it still takes ~5 seconds for
the buffers to update.

Ltrace tells me that inotify_...() functions ARE being called. It also
tells me that inotify_callback() is called immediately after a file
update, but the buffer is not updated immediately. Is this intended
behavior or a bug? The recent 24.4 release touts inotify support in its
NEWS; does this mean simply that auto-revert is more efficient?

dima



             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-21  7:00 Dima Kogan [this message]
2014-10-21 13:43 ` Clarification about auto-revert-mode and inotify Stefan Monnier
2014-10-21 15:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 16:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-21 17:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 20:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-21 20:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 21:32             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22  2:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22  3:20                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 14:47                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 17:09                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24  7:02                       ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 17:59   ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 18:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 18:59       ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 19:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 19:39           ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-21 20:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-21 20:29               ` Dima Kogan
2014-10-22  2:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22  5:36                   ` Per Starbäck
2014-10-22 14:51                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 19:08                       ` Per Starbäck
2014-10-22 19:35                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-22 10:13               ` Florian Weimer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-21  6:01 Dima Kogan
2014-10-21  5:03 Dima Kogan

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