bug#53432: [PATCH] Avoid losing keyboard input when inotify is too busy [and 1 more messages]

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Is it? There are only two references to auto-revert-use-notify in
> autorevert.el, and neither changes that var.
>
> Also see:
>
> etc/NEWS.25
> 1108:*** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set to nil in
> 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
>
> etc/NEWS.26
> 1070:** 'auto-revert-use-notify' is set back to t in
> 'global-auto-revert-mode'.
>
> The latter coming with commit 484967796755051c4045cdcc26b0d3d129cc72ad.
>
> (Which was non-trivial to figure out because vc-annotate doesn't help
> with NEWS files because of rotation.)

Hmm, maybe we should revert that commit, since file notifications are
definitely not scalable enough to support such functionality.

Eli?