From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify)
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:30:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv62nfs1qr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E148534.40106@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:54:28 -0700")
>> My preference would be to wait for 24.2 since we're in feature freeze,
>> but it's the kind of feature which benefits from being available early
>> so other packages can start using it. WDYT?
> I briefly looked at it for integer-overflow issues, and found one: it
> assumes that inotify cookies fit into an Emacs fixnum.
Thanks. This needs to be fixed, indeed.
> This assumption isn't true on 32-bit hosts, unless Emacs is configured
> with --with-wide-int. As you know I'm a fan of wide integers, and my
> preferred solution would be to make --with-wide-int the default, which
> would solve the problem.
No, that would only solve the problem if the --with-wide-int option is
removed on 32bit systems and imposed as the only choice. Even if we may
change the default for 24.2 we're definitely not going to drop support
for "narrow int" operation so soon.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-03 22:34 [PATCH] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-04 8:52 ` joakim
2011-06-04 16:40 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-04 10:43 ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-04 23:36 ` [PATCH update2] " Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 9:48 ` [PATCH update3] " Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05 7:48 ` [PATCH update2] " Jan Djärv
2011-06-05 7:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-06-05 9:49 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05 15:59 ` John Yates
2011-06-05 16:14 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-06 18:56 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-06 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-04 11:30 ` [PATCH] " Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-04 17:13 ` [PATCH updated] " Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-04 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-04 20:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-06-04 23:43 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-05 2:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-06-05 9:22 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-06-15 20:53 ` Johan Bockgård
2011-06-16 8:52 ` Inlined cl functions -- how to learn about them Štěpán Němec
2011-06-06 15:21 ` [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Stefan Monnier
2011-06-06 16:25 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-06 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-06 20:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-07 16:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-07 18:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-24 0:50 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2011-06-24 10:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-24 12:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-06 13:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 15:54 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-06 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-07-06 20:39 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-06 19:14 ` wide-int crash [was Re: [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify)] Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 22:31 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-07 19:43 ` [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 13:06 ` [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-09-28 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 16:27 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-10-01 4:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 14:09 ` [PATCH] Added inotify support Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-10-01 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-02 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-02 23:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-03 2:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 3:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 18:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-12 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-14 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 19:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-05 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-05 13:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-05 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-05 16:55 ` Nix
2012-10-05 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-05 17:46 ` Nix
2012-10-05 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-05 18:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-06 16:39 ` Nix
2012-10-06 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-06 18:51 ` Nix
2012-10-06 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-06 21:28 ` Nix
2012-10-07 7:38 ` Achim Gratz
2012-10-07 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-07 14:54 ` Achim Gratz
2012-10-07 8:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-07 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-07 14:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-07 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-08 7:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-08 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-14 15:52 ` Jim Meyering
2012-10-06 7:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-06 7:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-06 16:41 ` Nix
2012-10-07 8:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-07 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 3:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-02 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-03 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-10 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-10 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 12:11 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-12-11 7:43 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 16:36 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 16:46 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-12-11 20:17 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 7:54 ` [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 8:19 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 8:44 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 10:38 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 10:24 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 13:17 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-11 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-12 1:09 ` Leo
2012-12-12 3:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-07 11:33 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-07 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-07 16:00 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-07 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 7:44 ` Michael Albinus
2011-06-06 15:14 ` [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify) Stefan Monnier
2011-06-06 16:21 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-09-18 11:50 ` [PATCH] " Leo
2012-09-26 12:15 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2012-09-26 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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