bug#26973: 26.0.50; sleep-for behavior changes with global-auto-revert-mode enabled

[Paul Eggert]

Andreas Politz wrote:
> I suppose the call will fail for
> a combination of onlydir with a non-directory filename.

Yes, that's right.

> we still need to inhibit open/close/access events from being used by
> any client in order to fix this bug.  (Unless someone finds a better way
> by looking more closely into the problem relating to processes. Though
> filenotify.el does not use them and so it may not be worth it.)

I didn't observe the problem with a little test case involving OPEN that I wrote 
myself. I agree it may not be worth looking into it. That being said, if you can 
easily explain the bug or supply a test case I can briefly look into fixing it.