Re: filenotify.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Imagine there are two registered watchers:
>> > (gfile-add-watch "/tmp" flags1 'callback1)
>> > (inotify-add-watch "/tmp" flags2 'callback2)
>> > Both return the same descriptor, let's say 1. What would you call, when
>> > there is an incoming event (1 flag "123") for the file "/tmp/123"?
>> Who's "you"?  IIUC it's the C code
> No.  C code just pushes an event onto the event queue.  The rest is
> done in Lisp.

Then the event should have an `inotify', `w32notify' or `gfile' tag.
Of course, that could be included in the "cookie" (which really should
be a new object type either in Lisp_Misc or in Lisp_Vectorlike).


        Stefan