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

[Jari Aalto]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Looking at the code, this will probably fail on network drives
> > that are accessed by UNC paths.
> 
> Jari, can you confirm that this problem happens for you only with
> UNC style file names?

This happens in local PC disk. No UNC involved.

> If not, please provide a self-contained test case that we could try to
> see what is going wrong.

Have some process that keeps a file open while the data is being
written to it. The file is never closed (only if process terminated).
This is happens e.g with firewalls(*) that do not close the file in
between log writes.

Jari

(*) In Windows:
1. Download Jetico Personal Firewall 2.x, install, configure, start 
   http://www.jetico.com/ (Free)
2. Open Emacs, M-x global-auto-revert-mode
3. Load Jetico's firewall log C-x C-f path/to/jpfsrv.log

Watch the file grow on disk (Windows Eplorer), but no revert happens
in Emacs buffer.