"FILE modified by boyd since last read" strikes me as more useful than most
error messages I see these days. My only question is what particular weapon
Boyd would have used to "modify" the file.

On 17 September 2014 23:18, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> using legacy bell-labs plan9 (I don't know the others), I often, that
> converges to always, get "FILE modified by boyd since last read" when
> editing a file on a cifs share with acme.
>
> The cifs main.c defines "boyd" as the "modifying user" (muid) in I2D and
> V2D, which are from fs.stat.
>
> From /sys/src/cmd/acme/exec.c:/putfile/+14
>
>         if(d!=nil && runeeq(namer, nname, f->name, f->nname)){
>                 /* f->mtime+1 because when talking over NFS it's often off
> by a second */
>                 if(f->dev!=d->dev || f->qidpath!=d->qid.path ||
> f->mtime+1<d->mtime){
>                         f->dev = d->dev;
>                         f->qidpath = d->qid.path;
>                         f->mtime = d->mtime;
>                         if(f->unread)
>                                 warning(nil, "%s not written; file already
> exists\n", name);
>                         else
>                                 warning(nil, "%s modified%s%s since last
> read\n", name, d->muid[0]?" by ":"", d->muid);
>                         goto Rescue1;
>                 }
>         }
>
> Hmm, possibly this is another time quirk, like that one from NFS. Does
> anyone know a good solution to that problem?
>
> Regards
> ikrabbe
>
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