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bug#29450: 26.0.90; No check for nil in some filenotify functions
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#29450: 26.0.90; No check for nil in some filenotify functions |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:45:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
Hi John,
> I've had file-notify back on for a few days now, and this has not happened
> again, so I'm fine with closing this issue.
I do it herewith.
> However -- and this is a separate bug -- I had to disable it again because it
> was stalling out Emacs regularly. I'd ran an operation that changed the state
> of the disk, and then Emacs would be locked up for minutes at a time until I
> hit C-g repeatedly. Finally, I ran Instruments to see what was going on, and
> it was stuck in a busy loop reading directories, spending 92% of its time
> calling delq over and over again.
In function `file-notify-handle-event', there's a commented `message'
call. Could you enable this, and send the output when this problem
happens, again?
> But that's a separate issue, and disabling file-notify cured the performance
> problem.
Do you write another bug report for this?
Best regards, Michael.