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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Message #34 received at 20417-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: 20417-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20417: 25.0.50; frequent crashes with global-auto-revert-mode
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:25:10 +0200

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

> 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?

Closed.

Best regards, Michael.
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