Re: Multiple people touching the same file with ange-ftp

[rgb]

rgb wrote:
> I'm reading in the manual where it says:
>
> Every time Emacs saves a buffer, it first checks the last-modification
> date of the existing file on disk to verify that it has not changed
> since the file was last visited or saved.
>
> This doesn't happen when I visit a file via ange-ftp.
> I'm accessing an unusual host so most of the support I've had to write
> myself.  But I don't see anything related to modification timestamps
> begin called when I trace the ange-ftp calls so I'm not sure how/what
> to modify to make this work.
>
> Does anyone have even the slightest idea where to start looking in
> order to add support for this.
>
> Thanks

I did get a little further on this.
I see the command MDTM being attempted and the response
'command not understood' coming back.
If I could intercept this, the DIR command does show the modification
time so I should be able to find and return it.