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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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 13149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13149: 24.3.50; Emacs thinks file was changed outside Emacs, but it was not
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:11:01 +0400

On 16.01.2013 1:47, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 01/15/13 13:38, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> If this is too bizarre, please wait until I re-confirm this on a new virtual machine with a different distro.
>
> It's strange all right: it indicates that time stamps
> are spontaneously jumping by 2 or more seconds, which I
> can't explain by any file system bugs that I can think of.
> Maybe it's a new class of bugs, but we'd need to know more
> about them.
>
> Could you please try instrumenting via this patch instead?
> It should help diagnosis.  Thanks.

Here you go:

fileio.c:5020: stat_mtime=1358287600.000000000
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
fileio.c:5359: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
fileio.c:5359: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
fileio.c:2200: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
fileio.c:5359: stat_mtime=1358287604.023708900
fileio.c:5020: stat_mtime=1358287610.000000000
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
fileio.c:5359: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
fileio.c:5359: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
fileio.c:2200: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
fileio.c:5359: stat_mtime=1358287613.927966600
fileio.c:5020: stat_mtime=1358287623.000000000
dired.c:958: stat_mtime=1358287626.880611400
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