Re: [PATCH] autorevert.el -- revert fix for Windows platform

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> 
> > For some reason the `verify-visited-file-modtime' test in
> > auto-revert-buffers is not enough to notice a file change under
> > Windows / native Emacs 21.3. Here is patch to compare the bufer size
> > against files size on disk. It cures the revert problem.
> 
> That's not foolproof, since changes need not alter the file size.

True. Do you know any use case of such a situation?

> Could you try to find out why verify-visited-file-modtime doesn't
> work on Windows? You said that the problem exists on Emacs 21---does
> it still exist under Emacs 22?

I could test more if you point me to a location where I can download
native windows version of 22.x

I downloaded only the lisp code from CVS to submit a patch that would apply
cleanly.

Jari