From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davis Herring Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Organization: XCP-1 Message-ID: <52A72E35.6030004@lanl.gov> References: <83txehxt42.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwk9uwt1.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386688153 23228 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2013 15:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 10 16:09:17 2013 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 1VqOw0-0003jL-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:09:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqOw0-0008Ds-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57660) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqOuc-0006QD-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:07:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqOuU-0000qs-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:07:50 -0500 Original-Received: from proofpoint4.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.52]:51411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqOuU-0000qU-Du; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:07:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailgate4.lanl.gov (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rBAF7XOJ019297; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:07:33 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E52B83628; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:07:33 -0700 (MST) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay2.lanl.gov Original-Received: from [128.165.123.233] (xray-r09.lanl.gov [128.165.123.233]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E29B83624; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:07:33 -0700 (MST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110717 Lanikai/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <87mwk9uwt1.fsf@gmx.de> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.11.87, 1.0.14, 0.0.0000 definitions=2013-12-10_05:2013-12-10, 2013-12-10, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 204.121.3.52 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:166260 Archived-At: > 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 -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.