Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory

[Michael Albinus]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried the new monitor and it made Emacs freeze.
> I was running "emacs -nw", which I think may help explain the problem.
> Fedora 17, x86-64.  Here's what I ran:
>
> (gfile-add-watch "/tmp/foo" '() (lambda (ev) (message "%s" ev)))
>
> Here are the diagnostics that were blatted
> onto my screen before Emacs froze:
>
> (process:11082): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2722: You forgot to
> call g_type_init()

I've committed a patch to the trunk which prevents this crash. However,
if you call "emacs -nw", you won't get any notification. I suppose we
need an generalized g_main_loop integration, synchronized with the code
in gtkutil.c.

Likely, we must move this code out of gtkutil.c and gfilenotify.c. Jan?

Best regards, Michael.