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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: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 05:35:29 +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 22:13:02 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > That's your logic, not mine.  If I want all the tests, I will say so.
> 
> How?

By the same selector scheme we use when running the whole suite.

> >> What would you recommend else? Introduce another syntax for selectors?
> >
> > Something like "make file-notify-tests TEST=06", for example.
> 
> The "06" is just my invention. There's no rule how to name ert
> tests. Most of the test names do not use numbers.
> 
> And a selector '(eql file-notify-test02-events) is just one of the
> possible selectors. Do you want to restrict this to test names? Using
> tags for selectors sounds also very appealing.

The name of a test is a good selector, and the syntax could be simpler
than it is now, if we could say something like "TESTS='foo bar baz'".

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