Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: Paul Smith <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Frank Heckenbach <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:03:56 -0400
> > 
> > > Or maybe we should abandon this optimization and take the lock
> > > regardless.  How bad can that be?
> > 
> > Well, we want to know if the file has any content anyway: for example we
> > don't want to output the enter/leave notifications if there's nothing to
> > print.
> 
> Why not?

To avoid clutter. There are probably still too many of these
messages anyway, as discussed before.

Note, we still give the regular enter/leave messages as we do
without output-sync, so no information is lost. We just avoid
additional enter/leave messages with nothing in between.

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