GNU bug report logs - #21241
25.0.50; gfilenotify doesn't indicate when limits are reached

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 21241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21241: 25.0.50;
 gfilenotify doesn't indicate when limits are reached
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:47:00 +0300

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:16:54 +0200
> 
> Well, one thing we could do was preferring plain inotify over glib's
> GFileMonitor when both are available.  On my GNU/Linux box both are
> available and configure chose gfilenotify as the default.

I wonder if we should revert our decision to prefer gfilenotify if
available, and instead use it only if there's no other supported
method.  It begins to sound more and more like gfilenotify is more
trouble than it's worth.
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