Subject: Re: bug#21432: 25.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch (inotify) errors if watched dir is deleted

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:01:18 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> I don't have a strong opinion about what the right behavior would be but
>> at least it seems inconsistent that you get the error only with deleted
>> directories.
>
> There is no "right" behavior.  What you see is what the back-end
> reports to us.  If we want Emacs to be smarter, it's the job of the
> application, not of filenotify.el.

Well, filenotify.el shall abstract from the different back-ends. Being
quite when the native rm-watch fails seems to be appropriate.

Best regards, Michael.