From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21841: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode broken when several files have modifications on disk Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:20:59 +0200 Message-ID: <837fltpvyc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86d1vnaj1i.fsf@yandex.ru> <563CC04D.60901@yandex.ru> <877fludsw2.fsf@gmx.de> <563DF9AA.1080102@yandex.ru> <871tc2dj05.fsf@gmx.de> <563E01A7.8000508@yandex.ru> <83h9kxq5kg.fsf@gnu.org> <563E04CE.3060404@yandex.ru> <83fv0hq4jc.fsf@gnu.org> <563E2386.8060908@yandex.ru> <83a8qppwp2.fsf@gnu.org> <563E3161.2000801@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446917002 27656 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2015 17:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 17:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 21841@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 18:23:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1Zv7Cp-0004u7-2J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:23:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7Co-0004d0-Bd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:23:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7Ck-0004ck-57 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7Cg-00070F-Ui for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7Cg-00070B-R8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:23:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7Cg-0007Hn-Dx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:23:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 17:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21841 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21841-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21841.144691694527950 (code B ref 21841); Sat, 07 Nov 2015 17:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21841) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Nov 2015 17:22:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57046 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7C4-0007Gk-Ki for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:22:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:52369) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7C2-0007Gb-Ms for 21841@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXG00C00FS0K800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 21841@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:21:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXG00CIJG74C290@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:21:04 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <563E3161.2000801@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:108541 Archived-At: > Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 21841@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 19:14:09 +0200 > > On 11/07/2015 07:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Not sure about configure. We warn about GTK because there's a > > configure-time option to disable that. By contrast, gfilenotify is > > only used as a last resort, > > The "last resort" case is worrying. In that situation, auto-revert-mode > would switch over to filenotify, but, if I'm reading #21241 right, then > it might start missing some notifications. > > I wonder whether we should use gfilenotify at all, unless explicitly asked. Maybe. I don't have enough experience using gfilenotify to say how bad the problem is. How about if you try using it for a while and see how much trouble it gives you?