Subject: Re: bug#75626: 31.0.50; Dired misses or double-processes files when auto-revert-mode is enabled

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:13:00 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> CC: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>,
>         "[email-masked]"
> 	<[email-masked]>,
>         Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:32:35 +0000
> 
> Is that necessary?  I can't see why it would be.

It is necessary because the macro must "freeze" the marked file while
it maps over them.  Otherwise, the macro doesn't work on a snapshot,
it works on a list that could change under its feet, which is not a
good way of writing programs that must give predictable results.