Re: File watch support in autorevert.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:31:15 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > You cannot expect that, not in general, because there's no such
> > promise in the docs of these interfaces.  That's why the interface
> > returns to you the full information about the transaction.  I don't
> > think it's wise to ignore that information.
> 
> At least for now, inotify.el returns nil as file name in the event ...

Probably because some events don't provide a file name.

> OTOH, do we want to allow a redefinition of a running watch?

Not sure, probably not.

> >> >  . At least on Windows, turning on auto-revert-mode and then modifying
> >> >    and saving the file announces that it was auto-reverted.  This
> >> >    didn't happen with the auto-revert method that doesn't use file
> >> >    notifications.  Is this a bug?
> >>
> >> I have an old Emacs instance, w/o support of inotify in
> >> autorevert.el. There I see the same message.
> >
> > I don't see this in Emacs 24.2.92 on Windows.
> 
> I see this message with 
> 
> GNU Emacs 24.2.91.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.13)
>  of 2013-01-04 on detlef

Probably because the underlying primitives (file-attributes etc.)
behave differently on GNU/Linux and on Windows.