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Re: Clarification about auto-revert-mode and inotify

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Clarification about auto-revert-mode and inotify
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:43:29 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) 
> NEWS; does this mean simply that auto-revert is more efficient?

Indeed, IIUC the current auto-revert-mode implementation only uses the
file-notification code to reduce the amount of polling, but the revert
itself is still only performed from the 5s timer.

I don't think there's a strong technical reason for that,


        Stefan
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