Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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.

Of course, it also doesn't help when Emacs is built without inotify.
The main questions would then be:
- how often does it work?  I think this is likely to be "often" since it
  should work for most/all the "home desktop" as well as laptop use cases.
- can we reliably determine whether it will work?
  IIUC inotify works reliably for local file-systems (even if they're
  exported because the other hosts's actions will be locally performed
  by the nfsd) but not for file-systems mounted from a remote host.
  Can inotify inform Emacs that its notices won't be reliable (so Emacs
  can decide to use polling instead)?
  
> inotify and friends are only spying on local VFS traffic, which in my
> experience makes them less than useful for most applications.

Aren't they used by most GUI file managers?


        Stefan