Re: Remote display-time-mail-file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:38:32 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Is this supposed to work:
> 
>  (setq display-time-mail-file "/plink:address@hidden:/var/mail/eliz")
> 
> ?
> 
> It doesn't work well for me in Emacs 23.2 on MS-Windows, and the
> reason seems to be that file-attributes, called by
> display-time-file-nonempty-p, only probes the file once, and
> thereafter returns the same attributes, even when the file's size
> changes.  Is there some cache somewhere?

The same happens in 3-day old Emacs 24, FWIW, and for the same reason.