Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 11:53:49 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Make "Clock Skew" problem.
In-Reply-To:	<SaZS1EAGs1U1Ewfk@foobar.co.uk>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980510115319.16252B-100000@is>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Paul Shirley wrote:

> The differences I see are in a program that does this:
> 1: create file,write file,close file.
>         (On small files this should show <1 second after rounding...
>         it should be taking milliseconds to complete)
> 2: FindFirstFile, extract the last write time, store it.
> 3: <waste some time>
> 4: FindFirstFile, compare last write time.
>         And this step shows a *different* time stamp to that from step 2

Amazing!  So what you are telling me is that the time stamp of the
file changes during its life even if you don't access it in any way,
right?

Could you please post the test progarm you used to show this behavior,
if it is short enough to be posted?

> This is a problem because Jed uses the timestamp to detect files changed
> by other process's/users. Its bloody annoying being wrongly told all
> your files have changed after every edit/compile cycle.

Strange: Emacs does such checks as well, but I don't think I ever saw
this test misfire on Windows.

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