Hello Paul, Thanks for your help, Here are the files with the time stamps included in the traces. Cheers, Bertrand On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 01/20/2015 05:19 AM, Bertrand Brelier wrote: > >> >> Let me know if you need anything-else. >> > > Thanks, those traces lack time stamps which are at the heart of the > problem. Can you please rerun both tests with time stamp details in the > stat-related system calls? Something like the following shell command > should do it: > > strace -o /tmp/tr -e abbrev=\!stat,fstat,lstat emacs -Q filename > > Depending on your shell, you may need to omit the backslash. >