Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory

[Michael Albinus]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 05/28/2013 03:39 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
>> Comments on the patch are welcome. And we should also start to design an
>> upper layer over gfilenotify.c, inotify.c and w32notify.c, which
>> abstracts from the respective file notification events
>
> I've been running into a similar issue with monitoring
> child processes; see Bug#14474.  A couple of dumb questions:
>
> Should the issues of file-change and process-change notifications
> be combined, or kept separate?

I agree with Eli: these are different topics, which shall be treated
different.

Wrt Bug#14474: if you want to suppress the autostart of the D-Bus
session bus, you might set a dummy address for $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS.
See (info "(emacs)General Variables")

Best regards, Michael.