Subject: Re: bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:57:47 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:53:03 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> glib is said to use also polling for file systems where you don't have
> native file notification support. This would make it superior to inotify
> for mounted filesystems, and alike.

The native Windows port of glib either crashes or simply doesn't
generate notifications when file notifications are requested.