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

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> IMO, this design is wrong.  Tramp is just one more back-end for this
> feature, in addition to two others: inotify and w32notify.  So I think
> Tramp handlers should be called from a higher-level code, one that
> calls whichever back-end is appropriate.  Otherwise, we will need to
> implement the Tramp support twice, in 2 different sets of primitives.
>
> Which, of course, goes back to the kind of design discussion I
> suggested to have at the time, where we were supposed to consider
> various alternatives and eventually agree on some higher-level APIs.
> Jumping to coding right away is IMO not the right way.  E.g.,
> currently there are subtle but very real differences between the 2
> back-ends: w32notify doesn't accept t or a lone symbol as the 2nd
> argument (it insists on getting a list); the list of supported watch
> types is entirely different; and the w32 back-ends actually watches
> the entire directory of the file, not just that file.
>
> IOW, this feature is not really ready for Tramp-ization, or for
> user-land in general.  Stefan wanted people to experiment with this
> and gather experience, before we know enough to discuss how to make it
> user- and Lisp-friendly.

Is there any progress on this? Any attempt of a unified interface?

Best regards, Michael.