From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier 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 23:38:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87siu1uxsd.fsf@gmx.de> <83lhzsy843.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386736763 25416 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2013 04:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 04:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 11 05:39:27 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 1Vqba2-0000lz-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:39:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vqba2-0007eE-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:39:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37131) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqbZc-0006sv-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqbZV-0002xA-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:36229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqbZU-0002x2-Rr; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id rBB4cluL003737; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7B95CAE321; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:38:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83lhzsy843.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:38:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4788=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4788> : inlines <301> : streams <1088870> : uri <1620553> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:166282 Archived-At: > Can you tell more about these performance problems? Suppose we always > run the file name through file-truename, before submitting it to the > notification back-end -- what problems will this create? One obvious problem is if the user changes the symlink. Stefan