Re: [PATCH] autorevert.el -- revert fix for Windows platform

[Luc Teirlinck]

Jason Rumney wrote:

   I'm not sure, do we really expect buffer-size to be the same as the 
   number of bytes in the file, potentially in the presence of multibyte 
   characters?

Of course not and I actually got files for which the two are very
different.

   This change is quite likely to break things if that 
   assumption is not correct.

Could cause 100% CPU usage and continuous overshouting of other
minibuffer messages with revert messages, making Emacs completely
unusable.

On top of that, if Emacs has trouble checking when a file has changed
on disk on MS Windows, then how is this a problem that is specific to
Auto Revert Mode?  What about any other part of Emacs that needs to
know this?

Sincerely,

Luc Teirlinck.