Subject: bug#21841: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode broken when several files have modifications on disk

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 19:14:09 +0200

On 11/07/2015 07:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Not sure about configure.  We warn about GTK because there's a
> configure-time option to disable that.  By contrast, gfilenotify is
> only used as a last resort,

The "last resort" case is worrying. In that situation, auto-revert-mode 
would switch over to filenotify, but, if I'm reading #21241 right, then 
it might start missing some notifications.

I wonder whether we should use gfilenotify at all, unless explicitly asked.