Subject: Re: bug#22213: 24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:38:19 -0500

Hi Stefan,

A question about the timestamps in loaddefs files:
Why do we need to store the last modtime for each input file?
Why can't we just compare current modtime of input file against that of
the loaddefs file itself? Is there a reason not to trust the latter?

Thanks.