From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:03:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87ioj3m6ah.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87mw8jg9a1.fsf@secretsauce.net> <87y4s31czw.fsf@gmx.de> <6770871.AMhgTgWFL5@descartes> <87ppdbehjw.fsf@secretsauce.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414584343 11391 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 12:05:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dima Kogan , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 13:05:37 2014 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 1XjS0L-0000eF-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:05:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjS0K-0000rw-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39873) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjRz2-0007ic-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjRyx-0000i9-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:58094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjRyx-0000i2-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([93.209.67.61]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LwXCt-1Y9Nwl14CF-018IYD; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:04:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:54:48 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:aRXq2lsFDQqdSYXGJVPpqIq7as1RV0XLbYLwHzi8Sn8jNLkL2Nq djNTW3+OHMd7w0j9YJDpxecqIq7rYLvEr5BkTnL1dNsljprtdqp34okX5yayFu5snmWPy+P wSi1txI1zcIXUZ3x3cUFbsHSIi1tgrZ9WAaKvxuvEJ/t11Bm366gemR5cCEV1ZtoCIn87Pc vLuuFr7rtLL+kLKeWX+LA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.21 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:175976 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> By the way, if in some hypothetical future we drop support for inotify >> in favor of glib, then we don't need to do the thing where we monitor a >> file's directory instead of the file itself, as described here: > >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-01/msg00178.html > >> glib already does this, so emacs doing too is an unnecessary >> complication and a form of wheel-reinventing. > > Interesting. Another point in favor of dropping inotify support, There are people who do not want glib linked with Emacs. > Stefan Best regards, Michael.