Re: emacs question

["Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:47:55 -0500, Jeffrey Leitner <leitnerj@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> "<filename> changed on disk, really edit the buffer(y,n,r or C-h)? "
> The CU uses gnu emacs ver 21.1.1 and xemacs ver 21.1 (both were installed
> from AIX  Toolbox for Linux Applications)
> They do not get this error when using vi in the same environment.
>
> The customer has input the following:
> Open  a file with emacs, that resides on NAS file system.
> Then try to open again (with  emacs), a file that resides on "pure" AIX
> filesystem  i.e /tmp.
> In both  files, write something, save it, and  just wait 1-2 min.
> If your try to append something in both files, the result will not be the
> same.
> In the first case, you will get the message from emacs that ""<filename>
> changed on disk, really edit the buffer(y,n,r or C-h)? ".

The message is produced when the file modify time is NEWER than the
time of last save.

I almost sure that the clock of the NAS is wrong (it's time is in
the future). It can be easily checked by doing `touch' from the AIX
machine and checking the file time by `ls'. Something like:
  touch /tmp/aix-file /NAS/nas-file
  ls -l /tmp/aix-file /NAS/nas-file

Ehud.


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