From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support. Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2181827.T3JxG88qQt@descartes> <83lifoa7hr.fsf@gnu.org> <87obkkcu92.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lifkvoxl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <87ehlbtv0r.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <87626ntowb.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349558801 21015 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2012 21:26:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:26:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nix Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 23:26:47 2012 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 1TKbtX-00046L-1y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:26:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKbtR-0006t3-5J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKbtP-0006sy-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKbtN-0006T4-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:54269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKbtN-0006Sz-2x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q96LQYSu002629; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 17:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EF2F2B40A1; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 17:26:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87626ntowb.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (nix@esperi.org.uk's message of "Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:51:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:154142 Archived-At: >> If nfsd applies a modification and it's not reflected with some inotify >> event, I think that's a bug that the kernel developers would want to fix. > They don't care. If an event doesn't come through the normal VFS layers, > inotify won't see it, and that's that. But that's a bug in nfsd, still. > Oh yes, indeed. I'm just arguing against ripping out polling and > replacing it with inotify, really: 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. Stefan