From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115439: * autorevert.el (auto-revert-notify-add-watch): Do not handle symlinked files.
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:07:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A72E35.6030004@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwk9uwt1.fsf@gmx.de>
> In general I agree. But Stefan was commenting on my change in
> autorevert.el. Here it is obvious, that the target shall be watched.
> I believe.
It seems to me that this is a variation on "tail -f" vs. "tail -F"; you
might even want to watch both the symlink and its target if the target
might be written or the symlink redirected.
Davis
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2013-12-10 2:30 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115439: * autorevert.el (auto-revert-notify-add-watch): Do not handle symlinked files Stefan Monnier
2013-12-10 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-10 4:58 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-10 15:07 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2013-12-10 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-11 4:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-11 15:17 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-10 4:37 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-10 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-11 4:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-11 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-11 4:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-11 15:21 ` Michael Albinus
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