Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115439: * autorevert.el (auto-revert-notify-add-watch): Do not handle symlinked files.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:58:18 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> I think this patch is acceptable, but if/when we try to write a generic
> >> file-watcher Elisp API, it would be good to make this work (probably by
> >> adding a watcher on the symlink's target).
> >
> > It's up to the user to say whether she wants to watch the symlink or
> > its target, I think.
> 
> In general I agree. But Stefan was commenting on my change in
> autorevert.el. Here it is obvious, that the target shall be watched.
> I believe.

What if the target is a directory?