Re: gfile-based file notifications are not immediate

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Even if kqueue works, I think it's better not to try and support it
>> (just like it would be better not to support inotify) if there's
>> a library (such as glib) which we can use and which shields us from all
>> those issues.
> By the way, if in some hypothetical future we drop support for inotify
> in favor of glib, then we don't need to do the thing where we monitor a
> file's directory instead of the file itself, as described here:

>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-01/msg00178.html

> glib already does this, so emacs doing too is an unnecessary
> complication and a form of wheel-reinventing.

Interesting.  Another point in favor of dropping inotify support,


        Stefan