[racket-dev] overwrite

The code compares the date of the file when it was last saved to the
date of the file when "run" is clicked.

Robby

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Dunno whether this helps...
>
> I haven't looked at the pertinent Racket code, but errors like this often
> happen in Unix applications because the mtime of the file is in the future
> relative to the current time clock.  Less commonly, because the mtime
> changed since the file was read by the app or since the app last checked.
>
> The most common case can happen because a VC/CM system is updating the times
> (someone mentioned Git, and some other systems do this), because it's a
> network filesystem and the server and workstation clocks aren't synced
> sufficiently, or because NTP or some other mechanism dangerously jumped the
> current time clock in reverse (usually a good NTP daemon will slow the clock
> rather than jump in reverse).
>
> Robby Findler wrote at 02/26/2011 01:39 PM:
>>
>> Looking at the code, I don't see anything suspicious (assuming that
>> after-save-file and file-or-directory-modify-seconds work properly, that
>> is).
>>
>
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