Help debugging `file-notify-handle-event`

Help debugging `file-notify-handle-event`

[Alejandro Pérez Carballo]

Hello, 

I've been trying to figure out the source of this recurring error message for weeks. I thought I had found a bug, but discussion with Michael Albinus after my bug report made me think I was confused.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2022-11/msg00123.html

The error message I've gotten for months now, often multiple times overnight, is just this: 

    file-notify--call-handler: Symbol’s function definition is void: nil

I don't really know what's triggering it, but having once caught a backtrace (which I failed to save somewhere), I ended up suspecting that the issue was related to the fact that, just loading this in vanilla Emacs:

```
(require 'filenotify)
(require 'autorevert)
(require 'subr-x)
(global-auto-revert-mode)

(save-window-excursion
  (find-file "~/tmp/test.el"))
```

and then running this:

    (file-notify--handle-event (car (hash-table-keys file-notify-descriptors)) '(renamed deleted) "/Users/apc/tmp/test.el" nil)

led to the same error: 

    file-notify--call-handler: Symbol’s function definition is void: nil

But in his follow up to my bug report, Michael suggested that this call

    file-notify--handle-event(20 (renamed deleted) "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org" nil)

was invalid (assuming 20 is the descriptor corresponding to the relevant file). 

I now have a backtrace to point to, and it does seem that something is causing that invalid call to be made. My question is: what can I do to figure out what's triggering it? 

---
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nil)
  nil((20 deleted "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org"))
  file-notify--call-handler(#s(file-notify--watch :directory "/Users/apc/org/agenda" :filename "work.org" :callback nil) 20 deleted "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org" nil)
  file-notify--handle-event(20 (renamed deleted) "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org" nil)
  file-notify--callback-kqueue((20 (rename delete) "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org"))
  file-notify-handle-event((file-notify (20 (rename delete) "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org") file-notify--callback-kqueue))
  funcall-interactively(file-notify-handle-event (file-notify (20 (rename delete) "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org") file-notify--callback-kqueue))
  call-interactively(file-notify-handle-event nil [(file-notify (20 (rename delete) "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org") file-notify--callback-kqueue)])
  command-execute(file-notify-handle-event nil [(file-notify (20 (rename delete) "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org") file-notify--callback-kqueue)] t)
---

Thanks in advance, 

A.

Re: Help debugging `file-notify-handle-event`

[Emanuel Berg]

Alejandro Pérez Carballo wrote:

> file-notify--call-handler(#s(file-notify--watch :directory
> "/Users/apc/org/agenda" :filename "work.org" :callback nil)
> 20 deleted "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org" nil)

What does #s mean?

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Re: Help debugging `file-notify-handle-event`

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:30:09 +0100, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> said:

    Emanuel> Alejandro Pérez Carballo wrote:
    >> file-notify--call-handler(#s(file-notify--watch :directory
    >> "/Users/apc/org/agenda" :filename "work.org" :callback nil)
    >> 20 deleted "/Users/apc/org/agenda/work.org" nil)

    Emanuel> What does #s mean?

(info "(elisp) Records")

Robert
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