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

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Package: emacs;

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 #29 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>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35418 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't poll auto-revert files that use notification
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:22:24 +0200

25 apr. 2019 kl. 13.04 skrev Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>:
> 
> Oops, I meant <https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/50134/2427>. Cut'n'waste error, while
> following Emacs Berlin meetup in parallel.

A most understandable error!

Regarding the discussion you refer to, drastically raising auto-revert-interval cannot be a practical solution in the general case, nor was it likely proposed as such. Even with the patch, polling will be used in many cases, including: filenotify failure (from running out of file descriptors, for example); deleted file; and anything matching auto-revert-notify-exclude-dir-regexp.
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