Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 716b468: Extend `file-notify-test02-rm-watch'

[Andreas Politz]

Ken Brown <address@hidden> writes:

> This may be another of those timing issues that we've dealt with
> before [...].

I think it is as well.  If cygwin's file-notify back-end runs on a polling
timer, we need to make sure that it has acknowledged the file's
existence before we delete it.  Maybe you could try out the following
patch.

diff --git a/test/lisp/filenotify-tests.el b/test/lisp/filenotify-tests.el
index 54e7ebfc0e..9b5c751021 100644
--- a/test/lisp/filenotify-tests.el
+++ b/test/lisp/filenotify-tests.el
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ file-notify--test-make-temp-name
                   '(change) #'second-callback)))
           ;; Remove first watch.
           (file-notify-rm-watch file-notify--test-desc)
+          (file-notify--test-read-event)
           ;; Only the second callback shall run.
           (delete-file file-notify--test-tmpfile)
           (file-notify--wait-for-events

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