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bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:23:53 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de> writes:
> Sure, the back-ends mostly watch directories, except for kqueue. But is
> this behavior also intended to be propagated to the clients of
> filenotify.el ?
Yes.
>> We've discussed this years ago, maybe you find it in the archives. There
>> are problems when you watch only the file. This doesn't work for example
>> when you want to watch a file which does not exist yet. Or which
>> disappears, and reappears.
>>
>> The agreement was to watch the upper directory. This works for all
>> backends except kqueue.
>
> Sorry, for not being clear: I was exclusively talking about
> file-name-handler here. Passing the intended filename is more general
> then passing the directory only. Think of some program foonotify, which
> is similarly limited like kqueue. Granted, this scenario probably won't
> come up very soon.
We have only two different programs for the remote case, gvfs-monitor-dir
and inotifywait. Coincidentally, I'm also the Tramp maintainer, so I
know what I am saying :-)
> -ap
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, (continued)
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/17
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/17
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/17
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/17
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/18
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/18
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/18
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/18
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/19
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/19
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/20
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/21
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/21
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/21
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/22
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/22
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/22
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/22
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Michael Albinus, 2017/03/22
- bug#26126: 26.0.50; file-notify-rm-watch removes arbitrary watches, Andreas Politz, 2017/03/24