From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autorevert.el Date: 25 Mar 2004 08:56:06 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403022319.i22NJbG01259@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403040508.i2458W811551@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403050400.i2540VQ21715@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403130310.i2D3A8w28676@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403150008.i2F083x04382@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403160456.i2G4uVL14097@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2427-Tue16Mar2004214034+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <8011-Fri19Mar2004164602+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200403210326.i2L3QpF29260@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403220244.i2M2ikR07506@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403221939.i2MJd8116508@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <8296-Tue23Mar2004214028+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200403240410 Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080197866 21259 80.91.224.253 (25 Mar 2004 06:57:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 07:57:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6Oo7-0005cK-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:57:39 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6Oo7-0000CA-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:57:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Ol7-0003Ho-BF for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Okz-0003F9-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6OkP-00030A-0U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6OkO-0002zF-Gk; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:53:48 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 24 Mar 2004 13:03:16 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20871 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20871 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: 24 Mar 2004 13:03:16 -0500 > > > (In general, I'm opposed to planting into Emacs user-level features > > implicit assumptions about Posix-specific behavior, in this case, that > > a directory is just another file. Yes, I know: Emacs is being > > developed primarily for Posix-compliant platforms, bla, bla...) > > I must say I don't understand what you're talking about here. > The "listen to messages" thingy is very much non-posix. I was talking about the assumption that the directory's time stamp changes whenever files are created or removed in that directory. A more portable way of building a feature that needs to know when directory contents change would be to define a system-specific function/macro that would return an indication of that, and leave its implementation to platform-specific files.