Re: File watch support in autorevert.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:14:36 +0100
> 
> > Perhaps the inotify implementation should watch the parent directory
> > instead of the file.
> 
> I was thinking about, but I have no idea on performance issues when
> notifications come in from all files in a large directory.

How is this different from receiving a lot of output from a
subprocess?  Emacs already copes with that, and file notifications use
the same mechanisms as process output reception.  So I wouldn't worry
about that.