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

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Message #112 received at 13149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <raaahh <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#13149: 24.3.50;
	Emacs thinks file was changed outside Emacs, but it was not
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:57:58 +0200

> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:36:32 +0400
> From: Dmitry Gutov <raaahh <at> gmail.com>
> CC: 13149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > So it does seem to be a file system bug.  Is this something
> > that you can reproduce with a little C program, that
> > creates a file, and invoke lstat and stat on it?
> > What happens when you run the following program
> > in your file system?  It should output time stamps
> > that are identical.  You may need to substitute
> > something else (like sleep (10)) for "sync ()"
> > to trigger the bug.
> 
> The time stamps were identical in all combinations:

A small wonder, since nothing is written to the file in this test
proggy, unlike in the original scenario.

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