Re: [PATCH] Added basic file system watching support.

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> For me, it would be sufficient to regard Tramp handlers as an extension
>> to inotify-add-watch and inotify-rm-watch, and not as a third backend in
>> parallel to two others.
>
> But then inotify-*-watch primitives will have to be able to be
> compiled on platforms where HAVE_INOTIFY is not defined.  Currently,
> this is impossible, so what you regard as sufficient would limit this
> feature to GNU/Linux users and remote files on other GNU/Linux
> systems.  I don't think such a limitation is desirable.

I've implemented a quick shot what's possible just now. If we have a
more general solution, I'm open. Your proposal with a unified API would
do it, but it means we need to unify. Now we have seen in practice first
problems.

Since I'm not an inotify expert, I would let the proposal for such an
API to somebody else. I would participate if it comes to practical
details for Tramp implementation.

If support for remote files is desired.

Bes regards, Michael.