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Re: why 4 inotfy events when saving a file?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: why 4 inotfy events when saving a file? |
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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:59:22 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.21821.1362951956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear Emacs users and developers,
>
> saving a file from Emacs gives 4 inotify events:
>
> how to reproduce:
>
> on first terminal do:
> emacs-snapshot -nw -Q /tmp/inotify.test
> modify file
>
>
> on second terminal do
> inotifywait -m -q --format '%e %w%f' /tmp/inotify.test
>
>
> on first terminal do
> ^x^s (safe buffer)
>
> result on second terminal is:
> MODIFY /tmp/inotify.test
> OPEN /tmp/inotify.test
> MODIFY /tmp/inotify.test
> CLOSE_WRITE,CLOSE /tmp/inotify.test
>
>
> why are there so many events?
To save the backup file. First it renames inotify.test to
inotify.test.~<version>~, then it writes the buffer to a new
inotify.test file.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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