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Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support. |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:22:16 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Of course you can't rely on inotify rather than polling, because inotify
> simply silently omits all changes that come from other hosts when an fs
> is mounted or exported over the network.
Of course, it also doesn't help when Emacs is built without inotify.
The main questions would then be:
- how often does it work? I think this is likely to be "often" since it
should work for most/all the "home desktop" as well as laptop use cases.
- can we reliably determine whether it will work?
IIUC inotify works reliably for local file-systems (even if they're
exported because the other hosts's actions will be locally performed
by the nfsd) but not for file-systems mounted from a remote host.
Can inotify inform Emacs that its notices won't be reliable (so Emacs
can decide to use polling instead)?
> inotify and friends are only spying on local VFS traffic, which in my
> experience makes them less than useful for most applications.
Aren't they used by most GUI file managers?
Stefan
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Óscar Fuentes, 2012/10/04
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Óscar Fuentes, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Óscar Fuentes, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Achim Gratz, 2012/10/07
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/07
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Achim Gratz, 2012/10/07
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/10/07