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: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:00:41 -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> <87txu7s31q.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <87haq6ell2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349618447 25163 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2012 14:00:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nix , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 07 16:00:52 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 1TKrPY-0005hO-NK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:00:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKrPS-0003Dx-Hd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKrPP-0003DC-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKrPO-0004rt-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:8483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKrPO-0004rE-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:00:42 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FxLQG/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHAW6CZBEA6MzgViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="200826909" Original-Received: from 69-196-180-6.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.180.6]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 07 Oct 2012 10:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 22E5A594D1; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:00:41 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87haq6ell2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:24:25 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:154179 Archived-At: >> > 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). Stefan