Re: A project-files implementation for Git projects

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  Eli Zaretskii
>  <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:12:23 +0200
> 
> 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)?

Expose it and do what?  About the only thing you can do is switch to
the alternative implementation (like turn off auto-revert-use-notify),
but (a) not every feature even has such an alternative, and (b) you
will still miss events, because there's no way to recover the lost
events.