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File notify broken on Windows

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 22534 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#22534: File notify broken on Windows
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:03:13 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com,  22534 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 21:51:09 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Expensive checks are skipped only for "make check" and "make
> >> check-maybe". "make file-notify-tests" run all possible tests in
> >> that file.
> >
> > That's inconsistent, won't you agree?
> 
> No. If you want to run the tests of a given file, you don't want to
> discriminate them. Otherwise, you could run expensive tests in that file
> only when you call "make check-expensive". Not acceptable, IMO.

That's your logic, not mine.  If I want all the tests, I will say so.

> >> The syntax of selectors is given by ert. See (info "(ert) Test Selectors")
> >
> > I understood the syntax by looking at what Makefile does.  But it's
> > hardly convenient (or pretty) to type Lisp expressions on the Make
> > command line, IMO.
> 
> What would you recommend else? Introduce another syntax for selectors?

Something like "make file-notify-tests TEST=06", for example.

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