> From: Markus Hoenicka > > Good catch. We're using roaming profiles here, so my home dir is on some > network drive. If I re-run the test on a local disc, I get the > following: > <snip> > That is, no time difference. But why does the network drive affect only > emacs and not touch?
The primary purpose of touch is to set the file's timestamp to that of the local computer. Emacs is just creating a file, so the timestamp is that of the computer that hosts the file, in this case, the server. --Ken Nellis
