From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: remember(-diary).el
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:22:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <usl2kz9u4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878x4cegfg.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (message from Michael Olson on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:05:23 -0500)
> From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:05:23 -0500
>
> An additional use case for this code is to detect whether the underlying
> file system supports file modification times.
That is unrelated to the numeric tails, even if it were a problem (see
below).
> I'm not entirely certain
> of this, but I think that at least some variants of FAT, perhaps all, do
> not support them. One of the programs I maintain (not part of Emacs
> yet) relies on file modification times in order to accurately determine
> which files need to have their contents updated after a corresponding
> change to a "source" file.
I'm not aware of any filesystem that does not support file
modification time. Even plain DOS supports them, and Windows 9x as
well, of course. Maybe you mean creation and access times? Those are
supported by Windows 9x VFAT filesystem, though (but not by DOS).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-21 7:24 remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 7:32 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-21 8:39 ` remember(-diary).el Glenn Morris
2007-11-21 18:49 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-21 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el John Wiegley
2007-11-21 8:44 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 13:55 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-21 17:06 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 18:50 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 2:13 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-22 4:18 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 8:57 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-22 9:44 ` remember(-diary).el joakim
2007-11-23 4:35 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-23 20:56 ` remember(-diary).el Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-23 21:46 ` remember(-diary).el David Kastrup
2007-11-22 10:41 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-22 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el Juri Linkov
2007-11-23 0:10 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-30 6:17 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 8:27 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-30 12:40 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-22 2:27 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 6:22 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 16:48 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 18:42 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 19:06 ` remember(-diary).el Glenn Morris
2007-11-30 22:11 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 22:22 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-12-01 9:07 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 9:56 ` remember(-diary).el David Kastrup
2007-12-01 9:06 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-02 21:33 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 4:18 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-03 15:13 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 15:44 ` remember(-diary).el Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-03 1:05 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-12-03 14:40 ` remember(-diary).el Stefan Monnier
2007-12-03 20:51 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 17:59 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 20:57 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-30 22:07 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-05 1:22 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-05 4:46 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-21 18:24 ` remember(-diary).el Sven Joachim
2007-11-21 18:54 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 13:32 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-22 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el Juri Linkov
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