GNU bug report logs - #26126
26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>

Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #113 received at 26126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 26126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, politza <at> hochschule-trier.de
Subject: Re: bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:02:56 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:57:10 +0100
> Cc: 26126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > This touches the question whether we're operating under the assumption,
> > that other Lisp-code (apart from filenotify.el) may freely call
> > inotify-add-watch or not.  Because if it does, this has to be handled in
> > inotify.c.  Otherwise we may handle it in filenotify.el .
> 
> It is still possible to call inotify-add-watch and companions. However,
> we don't force this use; the Elisp manual decribes only filenoty.el
> functionality.

IMO, Lisp programs should always go through filenotify.el, never via
backend-specific APIs.
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