From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: autorevert.el
Date: 22 Mar 2004 08:51:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud675idbw.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403220244.i2M2ikR07506@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:44:46 -0600 (CST))
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:44:46 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
>
> How about checking the directory size as well? That could work for MS
> filesystems as well, if `stat' does a good job of reporting the
> directory size (in the MS-DOS port, it does).
>
> You mean (nth 7 (file-attributes dirname))?
Yes.
> Somehow does not seem to work (on GNU/Linux). It returns 4096 for
> all empty to medium size directories.
That's expected: a directory's file grows very slowly, since each
entry takes up a small number of bytes, so another 4K block will be
allocated only after lots of files are added. But that doesn't mean
it's not an indication of a change.
> In other words, it is useless for our purposes.
I'm at a loss how you arrived at that conclusion, especially since I
suggested looking at the size for the benefit of systems that cannot
use the time stamp. Isn't this better than not knowing the directory
changed at all?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-22 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 23:19 autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-03 13:24 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-04 5:08 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-04 20:43 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-05 4:00 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-13 3:10 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-13 11:29 ` autorevert.el Kai Grossjohann
2004-03-14 23:15 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 0:08 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15 2:58 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 7:04 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-16 4:56 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-16 19:40 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-19 4:48 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-19 6:06 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-21 2:42 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-23 15:26 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 4:20 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-24 4:25 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-21 4:19 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-19 10:19 ` autorevert.el Kim F. Storm
2004-03-19 14:46 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 3:26 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-21 6:46 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 2:44 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-22 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-03-22 19:39 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-23 19:40 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-23 20:09 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 4:10 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-24 6:58 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-24 18:03 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 6:56 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-25 17:01 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 18:56 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 6:20 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 6:49 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 7:21 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 19:47 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-22 16:23 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-23 4:24 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 19:22 ` autorevert.el Richard Stallman
2004-03-16 5:06 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-05 4:25 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-05 5:55 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-04 5:34 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
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