GNU bug report logs - #75626
31.0.50; Dired misses or double-processes files when auto-revert-mode is enabled

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:43:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Done: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #151 received at 75626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 75626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tsdh <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75626: 31.0.50; Dired misses or double-processes
 files when auto-revert-mode is enabled
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:15:46 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> CC: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>,
>         "75626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
> 	<75626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
>         Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:32:37 +0000
> 
> An operation on marked files - which really
> means, for this macro, an operation on marked
> _lines_, CAN DO ANYTHING.

Auto-reverting is not something the operation on files does, it is
something that happens behind the operation's back.  It affects the
list of files that the operation wants to map over, and could easily
cause the operation to never terminate.
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