bug#13540: 24.3.50; Regression in trunk: auto-revert-mode fails on files accessed via samba

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I guess autorevert should allow users to specify whether notifications
> should be used on a per filesystem basis, rather than just globally
> for the entire session.

Makes sense to me. With this mechanism, a user could also decide,
whether remote files shall be reverted based on file notifications, or
not. I'll prepare a patch for autorevert.el.

Maybe we could also enhance the docstring of w32notify-add-watch, that
even a returned descriptor does not guarantee that the files are
watched. Whether we need it for inotify-add-watch as well I don't
know. I've tested shortly on an NFS mounted filesystem, which is
exported from my NAS, and there were no problems (notifications did
arrive). But the more interesting test might be SMB mounts, which I
haven't available locally. I should ask my wife to share something to me
from her laptop :-)

Best regards, Michael.