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bug#21841: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode broken when several files have modi


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#21841: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode broken when several files have modifications on disk
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 19:14:09 +0200
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On 11/07/2015 07:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Not sure about configure.  We warn about GTK because there's a
configure-time option to disable that.  By contrast, gfilenotify is
only used as a last resort,

The "last resort" case is worrying. In that situation, auto-revert-mode would switch over to filenotify, but, if I'm reading #21241 right, then it might start missing some notifications.

I wonder whether we should use gfilenotify at all, unless explicitly asked.





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