Re: Multiple people touching the same file with ange-ftp

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

rgb wrote:
> rgb wrote:
>> I'm reading in the manual where it says:
>>
>> Every time Emacs saves a buffer, it first checks the last-modification
>> date of the existing file on disk to verify that it has not changed
>> since the file was last visited or saved.
>>
>> This doesn't happen when I visit a file via ange-ftp.
>> I'm accessing an unusual host so most of the support I've had to write
>> myself.  But I don't see anything related to modification timestamps
>> begin called when I trace the ange-ftp calls so I'm not sure how/what
>> to modify to make this work.
>>
>> Does anyone have even the slightest idea where to start looking in
>> order to add support for this.
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> I did get a little further on this.
> I see the command MDTM being attempted and the response
> 'command not understood' coming back.
> If I could intercept this, the DIR command does show the modification
> time so I should be able to find and return it.

Searching for MDTM in ange-ftp.el leads one to ange-ftp-file-modtime.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA