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26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the event is messy code

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From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the event is messy
 code
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 03:50:26 +0000

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So file name comparing in the event callback of filenotify.el always fails. And there is no autorevert for this file.

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In GNU Emacs 26.3.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0, NS appkit-1561.61 Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G8037))
 of 2019-10-30 built on jundeMac
Repository revision: 3ee8ee8476fef2a5e8159f7597e36e0953295ce2
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Message #8 received at 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
Cc: 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the
 event is messy code
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:32:24 +0100

HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com> writes:

Hi,

> So file name comparing in the event callback of filenotify.el always
> fails. And there is no autorevert for this file.

Well, it is hard to analyse based on a .png file. Could you please
uncomment the line 93 in filenotify.el (it is a message call), and rerun
the test? There shall be debug output in the *Messages* buffer then.

> In GNU Emacs 26.3.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0, NS
> appkit-1561.61 Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G8037))
>  of 2019-10-30 built on jundeMac
> Repository revision: 3ee8ee8476fef2a5e8159f7597e36e0953295ce2

It's a Mac. That means, kqueue is the file-notify backend.

Does the underlying file system supports utf8? Is it enabled? Maybe
there's something to convert, when getting a kevent from the system?

> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: zh_CN.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

That looks OK, although I'm not sure whether the coding system shall be
utf-8-hfs or something like this.

Unfortunately, I'm not able to debug on Mac :-(

Best regards, Michael.

Message #11 received at 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, netjune <at> outlook.com
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50;
 filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the event is messy code
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:35:17 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:32:24 +0100
> Cc: 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Does the underlying file system supports utf8? Is it enabled? Maybe
> there's something to convert, when getting a kevent from the system?
> 
> > Important settings:
> >   value of $LANG: zh_CN.UTF-8
> >   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
> 
> That looks OK, although I'm not sure whether the coding system shall be
> utf-8-hfs or something like this.

The strings shown in the image are UTF-8 encoded.

Message #14 received at 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, netjune <at> outlook.com
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the
 event is messy code
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:49:34 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> That looks OK, although I'm not sure whether the coding system shall be
>> utf-8-hfs or something like this.
>
> The strings shown in the image are UTF-8 encoded.

Hmm. kqueue.c is very lazy in using ENCODE_FILE, it uses it only in
kqueue-add-watch. Maybe it is missing somewhere else?

(I always fail to handle utf-8 properly, especially in C code :-( )

Best regards, Michael.

Message #17 received at 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, netjune <at> outlook.com
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the
 event is messy code
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:25:02 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: netjune <at> outlook.com,  38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:49:34 +0100
> 
> > The strings shown in the image are UTF-8 encoded.
> 
> Hmm. kqueue.c is very lazy in using ENCODE_FILE, it uses it only in
> kqueue-add-watch. Maybe it is missing somewhere else?

I see one potential problem: in kqueue-add-watch, you encode the file
name, but then pass it to APIs that generally expect multibyte
(i.e. un-encoded) strings, although they will also work with encoded
unibyte strings.  Moreover, you put the unibyte encoded file name into
the watch object.  Not sure if this is related to the issue at hand,
but it would be cleaner to make this change:

diff --git a/src/kqueue.c b/src/kqueue.c
index 76d7fc1..1383d7d 100644
--- a/src/kqueue.c
+++ b/src/kqueue.c
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ DEFUN ("kqueue-add-watch", Fkqueue_add_watch, Skqueue_add_watch, 3, 3, 0,
     }
 
   /* Open file.  */
-  file = ENCODE_FILE (file);
+  Lisp_Object encoded_file = ENCODE_FILE (file);
   oflags = O_NONBLOCK;
 #if O_EVTONLY
   oflags |= O_EVTONLY;
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ DEFUN ("kqueue-add-watch", Fkqueue_add_watch, Skqueue_add_watch, 3, 3, 0,
 #else
     oflags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
 #endif
-  fd = emacs_open (SSDATA (file), oflags, 0);
+  fd = emacs_open (SSDATA (encoded_file), oflags, 0);
   if (fd == -1)
     report_file_error ("File cannot be opened", file);
 
Btw, I don't think I understand the nature of the problem yet: where
were the unibyte strings shown in the report printed?  Did some Emacs
code print them, and if so, where is that code?

Message #20 received at 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, netjune <at> outlook.com
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the
 event is messy code
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:45:31 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Hmm. kqueue.c is very lazy in using ENCODE_FILE, it uses it only in
>> kqueue-add-watch. Maybe it is missing somewhere else?
>
> I see one potential problem: in kqueue-add-watch, you encode the file
> name, but then pass it to APIs that generally expect multibyte
> (i.e. un-encoded) strings, although they will also work with encoded
> unibyte strings.  Moreover, you put the unibyte encoded file name into
> the watch object.  Not sure if this is related to the issue at hand,
> but it would be cleaner to make this change:
>
> diff --git a/src/kqueue.c b/src/kqueue.c
> index 76d7fc1..1383d7d 100644
> --- a/src/kqueue.c
> +++ b/src/kqueue.c
> @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ DEFUN ("kqueue-add-watch", Fkqueue_add_watch, Skqueue_add_watch, 3, 3, 0,
>      }
>
>    /* Open file.  */
> -  file = ENCODE_FILE (file);
> +  Lisp_Object encoded_file = ENCODE_FILE (file);
>    oflags = O_NONBLOCK;
>  #if O_EVTONLY
>    oflags |= O_EVTONLY;
> @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ DEFUN ("kqueue-add-watch", Fkqueue_add_watch, Skqueue_add_watch, 3, 3, 0,
>  #else
>      oflags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
>  #endif
> -  fd = emacs_open (SSDATA (file), oflags, 0);
> +  fd = emacs_open (SSDATA (encoded_file), oflags, 0);
>    if (fd == -1)
>      report_file_error ("File cannot be opened", file);

Thanks, let's see how far we go with this.

> Btw, I don't think I understand the nature of the problem yet: where
> were the unibyte strings shown in the report printed?  Did some Emacs
> code print them, and if so, where is that code?

Same question here. Looks like the OP has added some prints to the code.

In Emacs 27.0.50, we have file-notify-debug, which does it for us when
set to t. But this is Emacs 26.3.50, that's why I have asked to activate
the relevant debug message manually.

Best regards, Michael.

Message #23 received at 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the
 event is messy code
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:35:14 +0000

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在 2019年11月21日 +0800 AM2:24，Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>，写道：
Btw, I don't think I understand the nature of the problem yet: where
were the unibyte strings shown in the report printed? Did some Emacs
code print them, and if so, where is that code?

It’s my fault. I didn’t describe the problem clearly. I have added some debug messages to notify.el.
Auto-revert doesn’t work for many files on my machine, so I want to find the cause and added the debug messages. Finally I find that it is because the messy code.

The scenario:

  1.  Low level file event comes, there is a file name in the event which has messy code int it.
  2.  In file notify.el, it receives the event, extracts the file name in the event and compares it with the one it has stored when adding the watch. The extracted on is messy code, and the stored one is good string. They are not equal. So the event is discarded.
  3.  Then no auto-revert for the file forever.

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From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the
 event is messy code
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:33:42 +0000

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在 2019年11月21日 +0800 AM2:24，Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>，写道：
From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: netjune <at> outlook.com, 38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:49:34 +0100

The strings shown in the image are UTF-8 encoded.

Hmm. kqueue.c is very lazy in using ENCODE_FILE, it uses it only in
kqueue-add-watch. Maybe it is missing somewhere else?

I see one potential problem: in kqueue-add-watch, you encode the file
name, but then pass it to APIs that generally expect multibyte
(i.e. un-encoded) strings, although they will also work with encoded
unibyte strings. Moreover, you put the unibyte encoded file name into
the watch object. Not sure if this is related to the issue at hand,
but it would be cleaner to make this change:

diff --git a/src/kqueue.c b/src/kqueue.c
index 76d7fc1..1383d7d 100644
--- a/src/kqueue.c
+++ b/src/kqueue.c
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ DEFUN ("kqueue-add-watch", Fkqueue_add_watch, Skqueue_add_watch, 3, 3, 0,
}

/* Open file. */
- file = ENCODE_FILE (file);
+ Lisp_Object encoded_file = ENCODE_FILE (file);
oflags = O_NONBLOCK;
#if O_EVTONLY
oflags |= O_EVTONLY;
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ DEFUN ("kqueue-add-watch", Fkqueue_add_watch, Skqueue_add_watch, 3, 3, 0,
#else
oflags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
#endif
- fd = emacs_open (SSDATA (file), oflags, 0);
+ fd = emacs_open (SSDATA (encoded_file), oflags, 0);
if (fd == -1)
report_file_error ("File cannot be opened", file);

It is fixed by your patch. Thanks.

A question:
I print the value of file and encoded_file with safe_debug_print in kqueue.c. The former is normal string. The latter is messy code. What is the encoding of encoded_file? The value of file-name-coding-system is utf-8-hfs. How much does utf-8-hfs diff with utf-8-unix? Is utf-8-hfs not really utf-8?

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Message #33 received at 38287-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
Cc: 38287-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#38287: 26.3.50; filenotify.el: the Chinese file name in the
 event is messy code
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:42:41 +0200

> From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
> CC: "38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <38287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:33:42 +0000
> 
> It is fixed by your patch. Thanks. 

Thanks, I installed it.

> I print the value of file and encoded_file with safe_debug_print in kqueue.c. The former is normal string. The
> latter is messy code. What is the encoding of encoded_file? The value of file-name-coding-system is
> utf-8-hfs. How much does utf-8-hfs diff with utf-8-unix? Is utf-8-hfs not really utf-8?

encoded_file is in UTF-8 on your system.  What you perceive as "messy
code" is how Emacs displays unibyte strings, which are actually
sequences of raw bytes, not of characters.

utf-8 and utf-8-hfs are not exactly the same, but for Chinese
characters they produce the same results, because those characters
don't have decompositions.

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