Re: Clarification about auto-revert-mode and inotify

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:43:29 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > NEWS; does this mean simply that auto-revert is more efficient?
> 
> Indeed, IIUC the current auto-revert-mode implementation only uses the
> file-notification code to reduce the amount of polling, but the revert
> itself is still only performed from the 5s timer.
> 
> I don't think there's a strong technical reason for that,

The value of auto-revert-interval can be customized to a smaller
value.