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

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi,

> The nil setting was due to kqueue specific problem.  Michael fixed
> that particular problem and therefore reverted the nil setting.

Indeed.

> However, my opinion is still the same: file-notifications are not
> scalable, so people who use and abuse them globally do that to their
> own cost.  Not sure if it's worth forcing the notifications off,
> though.  Perhaps we should have a PROBLEMS entry about that.

I believe we should improve event handling. When it is not possible to
handle D-Bus events properly, and the native monitor detects this
situation, it shall signal an error or call a handler. Packages
monitoring files could react in case of.

Best regards, Michael.