[debbugs-tracker] bug#12863: closed (auto-revert does not detect changes within 1s of a revert)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #12863,
regarding auto-revert does not detect changes within 1s of a revert
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> Annoying bug in revert-buffer
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> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:42:17 +0100
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)
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> I use revert-buffer on several log buffers. There is one annoying bug.
> Sometimes Emacs sees that the buffer has changed and reloads it. But
> when it changes in the same second again, the buffer is not reloaded
> and you do not see the changes. First I thought it was a Windows
> quirk, but now I have seen the same behaviour on Linux. (I am looking
> more at log buffers I suppose.)
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> Is this a known bug?
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> Cecil Westerhof
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> Re: bug#12863: Annoying bug in revert-buffer
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> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:50:52 -0500
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.4
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> Paul Eggert wrote:
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> > On 11/12/2012 12:04 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> >> I see this comment in verify-visited-file-modtime:
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> >> /* If both [times] exist, accept them if they are off by one second.  */
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> > I've had my eye on that code for some time, figuring that
> > it must be bogus but not having the time to prove that it
> > was bogus.  Since it's now known to cause problems, I removed it
> > in trunk bzr 110875. 
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> Thanks, I checked using `touch' and verify-visited-file-modtime that it
> fixes the issue for me.
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> So this will be fixed in the next (probably) release after 24.3, not in
> 24.3 as I originally said.
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