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

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> I did a test on latest CVS Emacs on w32:
>
> - opened a file in Emacs.
> - (verify-visited-file-modetime (current-buffer)) => t
> - did "touch file" (outside of Emacs)
>
> Now I got
>
> - (verify-visited-file-modetime (current-buffer)) => nil

Looking at the code, this will probably fail on network drives that are 
accessed by UNC paths. The stat information is populated with dummy data 
in that case. I'm sure there is a reason for this, but maybe it will be 
possible to at least get the modification timestamp right.