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26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches

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Message #74 received at 26126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 26126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:59:57 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> But Andreas asks about calling remote handlers, about which we by
> definition know much less.  In that context, it might indeed make
> sense to pass the file, not its parent directory, because the handler
> can easily reconstruct the parent directory if that's what it needs.
> By contrast, there's no way for the handler to intuit the file which
> was stripped.
>
> WDYT?

Actually, I was talking about both aspects and incidentally, in this
context about the other one.  I refer to packages using filenotify.el as
clients.

But, yes, what you're expressing, is what I was trying to get at before.

-ap

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