From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: 21435@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21435: 25.0.50; file-notify has problems after renames
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:03:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2s07vaf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4gh47sr.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:47:00 +0200
>
> file-notify using the inotify backend reports wrong events after
> directory renames. For example, with
>
> (let* ((flags '(change attribute-change))
> (handler (lambda (event)
> (message "WATCH: %S" event)))
> (x "/tmp/x")
> (y "/tmp/x/y"))
> (make-directory x)
> (make-directory y)
> (file-notify-add-watch x flags handler)
> (file-notify-add-watch y flags handler))
>
> the following events are reported after these shell operations:
>
> 1. $ touch /tmp/x/y/test1
> WATCH: ((12) created "/tmp/x/y/test1")
> WATCH: ((12) attribute-changed "/tmp/x/y/test1")
> 2. $ mv /tmp/x/y /tmp/x/z
> WATCH: ((11) renamed "/tmp/x/y" "/tmp/x/z") [2 times]
> 3. $ touch /tmp/x/z/test2
> WATCH: ((12) created "/tmp/x/y/test2")
> WATCH: ((12) attribute-changed "/tmp/x/y/test2")
>
> In 3, the file created is actually /tmp/x/z/test2, not /tmp/x/y/test2.
With w32notify, I see something very similar:
1. $ touch /tmp/x/y/test1
WATCH: (133902432 created "d:/tmp/x/y/test1")
WATCH: (133902432 changed "d:/tmp/x/y/test1")
WATCH: (159542912 changed "d:/tmp/x/y")
2. $ mv /tmp/x/y /tmp/x/z
WATCH: (159542912 renamed "d:/tmp/x/y" "d:/tmp/x/z")
(Here the watching thread exist with abnormal status.)
3. $ touch /tmp/x/z/test2
WATCH: (133902432 created "d:/tmp/x/y/test2")
WATCH: (133902432 changed "d:/tmp/x/y/test2")
WATCH: (159542912 changed "d:/tmp/x/z")
> There is also a problem with single-file watches:
>
> (let* ((flags '(change attribute-change))
> (handler (lambda (event)
> (message "WATCH: %S" event)))
> (x "/tmp/x"))
> (with-temp-buffer
> (insert "TEST\n")
> (write-file x))
> (file-notify-add-watch x flags handler))
>
> 1. $ mv /tmp/x /tmp/y
> WATCH: ((1 . "x") renamed "/tmp/x" "/tmp/y") [2 times]
> 2. $ echo "more" >> /tmp/y
> ;; no notification
> 3. $ touch /tmp/x
> WATCH: ((1 . "x") created "/tmp/x")
> WATCH: ((1 . "x") changed "/tmp/x")
On Windows:
1. $ mv /tmp/x /tmp/y
WATCH: (159487136 renamed "d:/tmp/x" "d:/tmp/x")
2. $ echo "more" >> /tmp/y
;; no notification
3. $ touch /tmp/x
WATCH: (159487136 created "d:/tmp/x")
WATCH: (159487136 changed "d:/tmp/x")
> So in the case of single-file watches, the watch seems to stick to a
> filename rather than a file. Well, I think that's ok but then I would
> expect it to be similar with directories, e.g., in the first example
> step 3 should not report a notification because I intended to watch
> /tmp/x/y and not /tmp/x/z.
I don't see any problems here. filenotify.el just reports to us what
the notification back-end receives. It doesn't (and shouldn't, IMO)
include any non-trivial logic to "fix" the back-ends in these tricky
cases, because it has no idea what the application will want to do
with that. Its role is to present a platform-independent API that
uses one of the available back-ends, that's all.
IOW, technically, the file/directory you watched disappeared from the
filesystem, so what is reported afterwards is IMO entirely resonable
at this low level.
One application we have on top of filenotify.el is auto-revert.el.
Now, if you see some user-level problems there when files are
renamed/deleted, please report them.
> Another thing is that renames always seem to be reported twice (although
> the example in the manual lists only one event but that example has
> probably gathered with the gfilenotify backend).
This doesn't happen with w32notify. filenotify.el includes some code
to produce a single notification out of the 2 reported by back-ends in
this case; perhaps something doesn't work there with inotify. Can you
step through the code and see why?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-08 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-08 8:47 bug#21435: 25.0.50; file-notify has problems after renames Tassilo Horn
2015-09-08 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-09-08 18:04 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-08 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-08 19:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-09 18:15 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-09 19:01 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-09 20:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-10 11:23 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-10 15:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-10 17:50 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-10 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-11 9:53 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-11 12:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-11 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-12 8:44 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-11 9:45 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-11 12:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-09 18:41 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-09 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-10 11:09 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-10 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-10 17:37 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-10 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-10 18:20 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-10 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-11 12:51 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-08 19:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-08 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-08 19:47 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-09 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-09 6:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-20 17:26 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-20 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 6:25 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-21 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 10:13 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-21 10:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 13:11 ` Michael Albinus
2015-09-21 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-21 13:38 ` Michael Albinus
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