GNU bug report logs - #13149
24.3.50; Emacs thinks file was changed outside Emacs, but it was not

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #109 received at 13149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 13149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#13149: 24.3.50;
	Emacs thinks file was changed outside Emacs, but it was not
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:56:32 +0200

> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:25:31 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 13149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> On 01/17/2013 09:10 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> > cifs:
> > 
> > 1358485764.638001400 fstat
> > 1358485764.638001400 lstat
> > 1358485764.638001400 stat
> > *
> > 1358485764.638001400 fstat
> > 1358485764.638001400 lstat
> > 1358485764.638001400 stat
> 
> That looks busted, since there's
> a 10 ms sleep followed by a write at the two
> points I marked "*" above, which means that
> fstat, lstat, and stat are all wrong after the "*".

Who said anything was actually written to the file?  You'd need
'fsync' to be sure, don't you?
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