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From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 2833@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#2833: 23.0.92; Bug in Directory Variables
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:03:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DDD5E4.2000500__13916.0614497543$1239276344$gmane$org@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxgicz1b.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

Chong Yidong wrote:
> The following patch changes the directory local variables code so that
> the cache stores the file atime.  Before using each cache entry, we
> check that against the file modtime.
> 
> This is not an ideal time to make changes of this sort, but I think this
> problem (i.e., inability to detect changes in .dir-locals.el files) is
> quite a serious one.  So please help me review this patch.
>

I suspect the systems where a problem with the patch will be most 
noticeable will be windoze, since there's an extra file attributes call? 
  I have a suspicion you almost might as well abandon the caching given 
the scary timings we've seen for that in the past.  I could be wrong though.











  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-09 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-09  2:59 23.0.92; Bug in Directory Variables Chong Yidong
2009-04-09 11:03 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2009-04-09 11:03 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-09 14:27 ` bug#2833: " Stefan Monnier
2009-04-09 15:20   ` Chong Yidong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-11 15:31 Chong Yidong
2009-04-12 13:22 ` Leo
2009-04-09  2:59 Chong Yidong
2009-04-09 11:31 ` Leo
2009-04-02 18:50 Chong Yidong
2009-03-31 14:32 Leo
2009-04-01  1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-01 10:01   ` Leo

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