From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remote display-time-mail-file Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:14:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83zkvh1m4j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837hil355j.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284668162 4714 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2010 20:16:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:16:02 +0000 (UTC) To: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 22:16:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKsC-00038O-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:16:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwKsB-0006L4-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53597 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwKs5-0006JN-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKs4-0000gC-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:15:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:44997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKs4-0000g3-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L8U00H00VUPV500@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:14:49 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.81.53]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L8U00HP7W8OVP00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:14:49 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <837hil355j.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130269 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:38:32 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Is this supposed to work: > > (setq display-time-mail-file "/plink:eliz@fencepost.gnu.org:/var/mail/eliz") > > ? > > It doesn't work well for me in Emacs 23.2 on MS-Windows, and the > reason seems to be that file-attributes, called by > display-time-file-nonempty-p, only probes the file once, and > thereafter returns the same attributes, even when the file's size > changes. Is there some cache somewhere? The same happens in 3-day old Emacs 24, FWIW, and for the same reason.