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Re: autorevert.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: autorevert.el |
Date: |
22 Mar 2004 08:51:47 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:44:46 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
>
> How about checking the directory size as well? That could work for MS
> filesystems as well, if `stat' does a good job of reporting the
> directory size (in the MS-DOS port, it does).
>
> You mean (nth 7 (file-attributes dirname))?
Yes.
> Somehow does not seem to work (on GNU/Linux). It returns 4096 for
> all empty to medium size directories.
That's expected: a directory's file grows very slowly, since each
entry takes up a small number of bytes, so another 4K block will be
allocated only after lots of files are added. But that doesn't mean
it's not an indication of a change.
> In other words, it is useless for our purposes.
I'm at a loss how you arrived at that conclusion, especially since I
suggested looking at the size for the benefit of systems that cannot
use the time stamp. Isn't this better than not knowing the directory
changed at all?
- Re: autorevert.el, (continued)
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/20
- Re: autorevert.el, Kim F. Storm, 2004/03/19
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/19
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/20
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/21
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/21
- Re: autorevert.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/22
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/23
- Re: autorevert.el, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/23
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/23
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/24
- Re: autorevert.el, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/24
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/25
- Re: autorevert.el, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/25
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/24
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/25