GNU bug report logs - #35418
[PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification

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Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #191 received at 35418 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 35418 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35418: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use
 notification
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 20:50:18 +0200

4 maj 2019 kl. 18.53 skrev Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>:
> 
> Maybe we could also add the other major reason why polling is necessary:
> file notification is not supported for all types of remote file systems
> (Tramp).

Is the problem that notification over Tramp may fail to activate or suddenly fail functioning, in both cases without any indication of error to file-notify?

If so, we should take care of this in code instead. Assuming the above, I suggest that file-notify consider all notification from file name handlers to be unreliable, and provide an interface to auto-revert, which will then keep polling those files.
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