Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.

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On 3 Oct 2012, Stefan Monnier spake thusly:

>>> Btw, what are Emacs use cases for using this kind of feature?
>> Apart from those mentioned on the original message (dired or magit's (or
>> vc-dir) status view) I'll like to mention auto-revert-mode.
>
> Yes, for my own use auto-revert-mode is the main one.

Of course you can't rely on inotify rather than polling, because inotify
simply silently omits all changes that come from other hosts when an fs
is mounted or exported over the network. inotify and friends are only
spying on local VFS traffic, which in my experience makes them less than
useful for most applications.

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