bug#13540: 24.3.50; Regression in trunk: auto-revert-mode fails on files accessed via samba

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:13:31 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, 13540@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > I don't see any interesting message in the GDB console when I eval the
> > elisp expression.  This is what I see now, after evaluating that
> > expression:
> 
> And FWIW, the elisp expression also returns an integer when I supply a
> nonexistent file as first argument, and GDB doesn't show any message
> either (besides the "[New Thread ...]").

This is normal.  Windows can only watch an entire directory, so
w32notify ignores the file name and sets the watch on its parent
directory.  It doesn't care whether or not the file exists, only
whether its parent directory exists.  As a nice side effect, you can
watch file creation.