Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> I've played a little bit with this. Looks, like not all events are
>> handled by the callback. Testcase:
>> 
>> In a shell, a have applied
>> 
>> $ inotifywait -mq /tmp/123
>> 
>> In another shell, I have started Emacs
>> 
>> $ emacs --eval "(inotify-add-watch \"/tmp/123\" t (lambda (&rest
>> rest) (message \"callback %s\" rest)))"
>> 
>> Then I have modified&saved /tmp/123. In the first shell, I see
>> 
>> /tmp/123 MODIFY 
>> /tmp/123 OPEN 
>> /tmp/123 MODIFY 
>> /tmp/123 CLOSE_WRITE,CLOSE 
>> 
>> But in Emacs' *Messages* buffer, there's only
>> 
>> callback ((1 (modify) 0 nil))
>> callback ((1 (close-write) 0 nil))
>> 
>> What do I miss?
>
> No idea.  Perhaps Rüdiger could help.  Or step with a debugger through
> the code and see what's going on.

I've fixed this in the trunk.

There is still something not clear to me: An inotify event

  /tmp/123 CLOSE_WRITE,CLOSE 

is transformed into an Emacs event

  (file-notify (1 (close-write) 0 nil) callback)

Is there a reason, that CLOSE (and also MOVE) are not handled in
mask_to_aspects?

Best regards, Michael.