Re: Auto-revert/notify behavior changed?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 23:16:42 +0200
> 
> I'm using auto-revert-mode for a few specific files (the mode is enabled
> via dir-locals.el).
> 
> A few months ago the files were reverted pretty much instantaneously
> when changes occurred on disk, as expected.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be the case in the current master anymore despite
> me not changing or seeing anything related in the latest changes in
> autorevert.el.

Can you be a bit more quantitative here?  What is the auto-revert
delays you see now, and what were they before?

> Setting a shorter auto-revert-interval seems to work, which (I guess)
> notifications are not working as expected, despite these buffers being
> associated to boring regular files.

So if you set auto-revert-avoid-polling to nil, files aren't
auto-reverted at all?

It is easy to check whether notifications work: e.g., use the test
suite.

> I double-checked my config, and emacs is always built with notification
> support (inotify).
> 
> I'm not sure where to start looking...

Could it be that something in your system changed, something related
to inotify?