Dear Paul, Thank you for your help. I reproduced the problem and saved the trace files in the attached tar file. I edited two files with the 2 emacs versions with the commands : strace -o emacs24.4.1.tr emacs-24.4 -Q Test24.4.1.txt strace -o emacs24.3.1.tr emacs24 -Q Test24.3.1.txt I was not sure how to just select the file access, so I provided the full trace files. Let me know if you need anything-else. Regards, Bertrand On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > If memory serves, Emacs 24.4 is a bit more careful to detect race > conditions when a file changes while you're editing it, and most likely > this is running afoul of some aspect of encfs. I suggest running 'strace > -o emacs.tr emacs -Q', reproducing the problem, and looking at the > resulting trace file. You can do the same thing with both old and new > Emacs and see how the traces differ. You can email the traces to > 19607@debbugs.gnu.org. We don't need the full traces, just the parts > relevant to accessing the files in question, notably the file status and > time stamps. >