From: Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 73709@debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: bug#73709: 29.4; Doc of `file-newer-than-file-p'
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:32:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h69aci1b.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867ca8r3sw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:54:07 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Two issues:
>
> . "last written to" is incorrect if that time stamp was modified by
> set-file-times and similar methods
> . the interpretation of mtime to mean "newer" (per the function's
> name) is problematic/incorrect when a file is copied with the
> KEEP-TIME argument of copy-file (and similar facilities of other
> commands, like 'cp')
>
> I'm asking whether we care about these subtleties. E.g., someone
> might claim that the second issue above means that
> file-newer-than-file-p has a bug.
I would say that these things are means available to instruct the file
system which times it should report. They don't necessarily collide
with the concept.
> The current doc string says simply that last-modification times are
> compared, and I wonder if that is not better left alone.
Or, we could also use that as a clarification of the description of the
concept on an internal level?
But anyway, if you have a good feeling about the current state I'm also
fine with it.
Michael.
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2024-10-08 17:56 bug#73709: 29.4; Doc of `file-newer-than-file-p' Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-08 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-08 18:40 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-09 0:45 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-09 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-09 16:32 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-09 23:21 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-10 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10 11:08 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 0:23 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-12 0:31 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-12 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-12 22:48 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-13 5:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-13 14:51 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-13 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-13 17:01 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-13 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-13 22:23 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-14 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-15 1:10 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-15 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-15 14:20 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-15 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-15 15:01 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-15 16:21 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-15 16:23 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-15 16:24 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-16 4:11 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-16 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-18 1:32 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-10-09 23:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-10 1:47 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-10 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-11 0:41 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-12 0:38 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-12 1:13 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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