GNU bug report logs - #20417
25.0.50; frequent crashes with global-auto-revert-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20417 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>, Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#20417: 25.0.50; frequent crashes with global-auto-revert-mode
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:48:31 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> Thanks!  May I close the bug, then?
>
> No, because the linked glib bug is still open, and the default behaviour
> of configure may use it by default.  See eg unapplied suggestion
> from http://debbugs.gnu.org/20417#8 .

In Emacs 25.1, the default file notification library is inotify for
GNU/Linux, kqueue for *BSD and OS X, and w32notify for MS Windows.

gfilenotify is the default library only for Cygwin. And there, we have a
similar bug#20927 about global-auto-revert-mode and file
notifications. The difference is, that Emacs does not crash there, but
makes Emacs unresponsive for a while.

Therefore, I would like to close *this* bug. We cannot do anything to
force a solution of the glib bug. Objections?

Best regards, Michael.
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