From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 13540@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13540: 24.3.50; Regression in trunk: auto-revert-mode fails on files accessed via samba
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:57:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ip6llmoy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8Pv0hN_P9enqcBBz4xE=m5F54OFiH5YZ5p8Ete6hcxDNHU7g@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:46:59 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
> Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 13540@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Each time you evaluate the expression that calls w32notify-add-watch,
> > you should see another "New Thread" announcement.
>
> Yes I do.
>
> > This is normal,
> > since each watch you add starts a new thread where the watching code
> > runs.
>
> Ok.
>
> > Can you use Process Explorer or "pslist -d emacs" (both tools are from
> > the Sysinternals package) to see if the threads started when you
> > invoke w32notify-add-watch keep running, or die/exit?
>
> I observe (with process explorer) that the new threads keep running.
>
> > The lack of any messages suggests that the threads continue to run,
> > but file notifications never come in, which probably means we cannot
> > detect this problem automatically, and must rely on the users who know
> > which volumes can and cannot be supported.
>
> Ok, if Emacs cannot determine itself whether file notifications work,
> I'll set `auto-revert-use-notify' to nil on that machine.
>
> > Also, I presume that you tried to modify files on the mounted volumes,
> > while you had GDB attached to Emacs.
>
> Of course. I started and "emacs -Q" process under GDB, and from that
> emacs session I visited the file on the mounted volume and turned on
> auto-revert-mode. Then, if I modify the file with another program,
> the emacs buffer isn't reverted and the GDB console doesn't show any
> message.
Thanks.
I guess autorevert should allow users to specify whether notifications
should be used on a per filesystem basis, rather than just globally
for the entire session.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-25 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-24 8:55 bug#13540: 24.3.50; Regression in trunk: auto-revert-mode fails on files accessed via samba Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 10:13 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-24 10:20 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 10:23 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-24 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-24 16:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 16:37 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-24 17:23 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 17:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-24 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-24 17:44 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 18:13 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-24 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-24 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 7:46 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-25 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-25 8:13 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-25 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 8:29 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-25 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 9:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-25 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 11:19 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-25 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 13:29 ` Michael Albinus
2013-02-14 10:09 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-24 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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