Subject: bug#18883: 24.4; auto-revert-mode with notify doesn't work with symlinked directories

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:11:20 -0400

> auto-revert-mode watches files based on (buffer-file-name), but
> notify will only return events for the file's real path.

IIUC one way to solve this is to change auto-revert's notification
handler so it doesn't pay attention to the directory and only compares
the relative file name (after all, the hash-table should already make
sure the directories match).

        Stefan