Re: A project-files implementation for Git projects

[Michael Albinus]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 20.09.2019 16:45, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> That's right: it wouldn't be 100% reliable.  I don't think we want to go
>> that way.
>
> That would be for one application, not for the general facility, but
> I'm not in a hurry to implement that, of course.
>
>> We could ask for inotify or other backends to send us
>> a special event when other events were dropped
>
> If inotify and friends could do that, that would be best.

inotify(7) documents the event

           IN_Q_OVERFLOW
                  Event queue overflowed (wd is -1 for this event).

It is signalled by our inotify backend as `q-overflow' event, but
filenotify.el doesn't care. And I haven't checked the other
backends. Maybe we shall expose it in filenotify.el (independent where
this discussion ends)?

Best regards, Michael.