Re: emacs bug? (file changed on disk?)

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Marco Maggesi <maggesi@math.unifi.it> writes:

> I have just finished to install debian 2.2r0a to a new
> AlphaServer DS10.
> 
> I got the following unexpected emacs behavior.  Every time I
> open and try to modify a file emacs warns
> 
>   file changed on disk; rally edit the buffer?
> 
> It seems to be a problem related on mtime of the file.
> Does anybody experienced the same problem?
> Any suggestion?

Whats your date?

The bug is present in xemacs also. both seem to store only 32 Bit of
the last modified time and thus, when the time exceeds the 32 Bit
(2036) it will allways differ and seem to have changed allways.

Setting the clock to pre 2036 helps.

May the Source be with you.
                        Goswin