GNU bug report logs - #21841
25.0.50; auto-revert-mode broken when several files have modifications on disk

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 03:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 21841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 21841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21841: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode broken when several files
 have modifications on disk
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.
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