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Re: New file notification event `stopped'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: New file notification event `stopped' |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:25:40 +0300 |
> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:56:43 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> Nobody did reply.
> >
> > I did. Or I thought I did, but now I cannot find my response in the
> > archives. Maybe it's my imagination, or maybe it has something to do
> > with the recent snafu in GNU mailman archives.
>
> At least I haven't received an email from you on this topic. Usually,
> you Cc the sender of a message.
Yes. I guess I was dreaming. It happens.
> > In addition, I don't know how to implement this in w32notify.c, at
> > least not easily. As I said, when the watched directory is deleted,
> > the thread that watches exits with an error status, that's all.
>
> But isn't there at least the `removed' event? Or is it just for files of
> the watched directory, and not the directory itself?
The latter, AFAIR.
> > What problem should this 'stopped' event solve? Do we really have a
> > real-life problem here, and if so, couldn't we solve it in some other
> > manner?
>
> Imagine you have a file under supervision in auto-revert-mode. If the
> watch is broken or removed (by a *-rm-watch call), autorevert could
> still work due to the polling mechanism in autorevert.el.
Shouldn't it be possible to test the validity from time to time?
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Michael Albinus, 2015/10/10
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/10
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Michael Albinus, 2015/10/10
- Re: New file notification event `stopped',
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- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Michael Albinus, 2015/10/10
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/10
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Michael Albinus, 2015/10/10
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Michael Albinus, 2015/10/25
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/25
- Re: New file notification event `stopped', Michael Albinus, 2015/10/25