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bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an even
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:05:04 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> writes:
>> glib is said to use also polling for file systems where you don't have
>> native file notification support. This would make it superior to inotify
>> for mounted filesystems, and alike.
>
> But how is it superior? Didn't you just say that when inotify fails then
> emacs polls, just as would happen with gfilenotify? To confirm, I just
> used an inotify-configured emacs to auto-revert on a file mounted on a
> network samba mount. As expected, the auto-revert-mode does work, but in
> a polled instead of event-driven fashion. So unless I'm missing
> something, then when you run the current emacs code on Linux both
> inotify and gfile work the same way EXCEPT gfile always has a 1-second
> notification delay while inotify does not. I'm probably missing
> something.
I meant gfilenotify is superior to inotify wrt file notifications due to
its polling feature. That does not mean auto-revert, since Emacs has its
own polling mechanism here.
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend, (continued)
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend, Dima Kogan, 2015/02/21
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend, Michael Albinus, 2015/02/22
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/22
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend, Dima Kogan, 2015/02/22
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend, Dima Kogan, 2015/02/23
- bug#18958: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode reacts slowly even if using an event-driven backend, Michael Albinus, 2015/02/24