Subject: Re: bug#13149: 24.3.50; Emacs thinks file was changed outside Emacs, but it was not

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:02:33 +0200

> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:57:43 +0400
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Bisect points to revision 110875 
> ([email-masked]):
> Fix a race with verify-visited-file-modtime.
> 
> Since at least 1991 Emacs has ignored an mtime difference of no
> more than one second, but my guess is that this was to work around
> file system bugs that were fixed long ago.  Since the race is
> causing problems now, let's remove that code.
> * fileio.c (Fverify_visited_file_modtime): Do not accept a file
> whose time stamp is off by no more than a second.  Insist that the
> file time stamps match exactly.

Therefore, I doubt that the same problem was the root cause of the
problem on Drew's laptop.

> Paul, any suggestions?

I'm not Paul, but can't you synchronize the clocks of the two
machines?