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

From: Dima Kogan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:51:56 -0800

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

> I meant gfilenotify is superior to inotify wrt file notifications due to
> its polling feature. That does not mean auto-revert, since Emacs has its
> own polling mechanism here.

Ah, ok. This is true. Would you be opposed to setting the default to
"inotify" on Linux since this currently provides a better user
experience there?