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25.0.50; gfilenotify doesn't indicate when limits are reached

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 21241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#21241: 25.0.50; gfilenotify doesn't indicate when limits are reached
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:27:39 -0700

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Michael Albinus writes:

> I would also agree to favor inotify when available.

Let's give that a try, then.  I installed the attached patch as master commit 
200c2b10faf298bf65e8b6dbd0cb9ef00b2f95d6.

> On OS X (better: on systems which have defined HAVE_NS), we should
> disable gfilenotify, because the Glib main loop won't be used (ns_select
> is used rather than xg_select).

configure.ac was trying to do that, but there was a typo.  Should also be fixed 
in the attached patch.

[0001-Default-to-inotify-instead-of-gfile.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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