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: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:06:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mw8jg9a1.fsf@secretsauce.net> <87y4s31czw.fsf@gmx.de> <6770871.AMhgTgWFL5@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414544814 22546 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 01:06:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dima Kogan , Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?windows-1252?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 02:06:46 2014 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 1XjHin-0000Tf-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:06:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjHin-0001DG-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34205) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjHid-0001D5-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjHiT-0006ER-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:30479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjHiT-0006EN-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:06:25 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq0IAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYtJRBAICgRwXAQF8hAMBAQMBViECBQsLNBIUGA0kiEsJy3IBAQEBBgIBH5EIB4RLAQSyIIFvhBQhgnoBAQE X-IPAS-Result: Aq0IAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYtJRBAICgRwXAQF8hAMBAQMBViECBQsLNBIUGA0kiEsJy3IBAQEBBgIBH5EIB4RLAQSyIIFvhBQhgnoBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="95468675" Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.143.59]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 28 Oct 2014 21:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 16859660F3; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:06:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <6770871.AMhgTgWFL5@descartes> (=?windows-1252?Q?=22R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld"'s message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:33:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:175955 Archived-At: > I was looking at adding kqueue support as well when I wrote the inotify > implementation. Even if kqueue works, I think it's better not to try and support it (just like it would be better not to support inotify) if there's a library (such as glib) which we can use and which shields us from all those issues. Let's not reinvent the wheel. Stefan