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From: | Anders Lindgren |
Subject: | bug#22814: 25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X |
Date: | Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:38:17 +0100 |
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 10:55:42 +0100
> From: Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>
> Cc: 22814@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> A general support for polling in filenotify.el is not foreseen, too much
> effort. But I believe, in the auto-revert case Emacs works already this
> way. When file-notify-add-watch returns nil, auto-revert falls back to
> polling (to be tested, I'll I add a test).
>
> This sounds like the right thing to do.
>
> The main question is why Emacs hangs when opening a large desktop (which is why I didn't want this bug to
> be closed), even though the file notify system has this fallback.
Can you debug this?
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