Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:02:06 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> I'm thinking about this at a fairly low level, not at the Lisp level.
> At the low level, Emacs is often best thought of as an event handler,
> where events can be keyboard presses, file-change events, process-change
> events, and so forth.  And glib uses a similar mechanism to handle
> file-change and process-change events.  So it seems natural to
> think about how these should be unified rather than kept separate,
> independently of how they're used.

So you are asking whether it would make sense to replace use of
'select' for process notifications by events that are put on the
keyboard queue?