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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115439: * autorevert.el (auto-revert-notify-add-watch): Do not handle symlinked files. |
| Date: | Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:38:47 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Can you tell more about these performance problems? Suppose we always
> run the file name through file-truename, before submitting it to the
> notification back-end -- what problems will this create?
One obvious problem is if the user changes the symlink.
Stefan
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