Subject: Re: bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:23:39 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> One alternative approach could be to analyze the file system device
>> number, as returned by `file-attributes'. By this, we could detect
>> mounted file systems.
>
> Only on Posix systems, right?

Don't know. I haven't used the device number ever myself. And in Tramp,
I set it to a virtual value which is distinct from values used for local
file systems, or from values from other remote connections, w/o any
further checking.

Best regards, Michael.