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Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115439: * autorevert.el (auto-revert-notify-add
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115439: * autorevert.el (auto-revert-notify-add-watch): Do not handle symlinked files. |
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Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:29:54 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:38:47 -0500
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> > Can you tell more about these performance problems? Suppose we always
> > run the file name through file-truename, before submitting it to the
> > notification back-end -- what problems will this create?
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> One obvious problem is if the user changes the symlink.
Right, but why is that a problem _performance-wise_? So we probably
need to watch the parent directory of the symlink itself as well, so
what?