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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Schwab'" <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: RE: file-attributes returns negative integer for inode value
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:12:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004d01c87cc3$571881f0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jefxv8g0lh.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

> > No reliable recipe to reproduce, but for me, some directories give a
> > negative inode number for file-attributes. For example:
> >  
> > M-x (file-attributes "c:/drews-lisp-20/Screenshots") gives:
> >  
> > (t 1 5 5 (18378 24192) (18123 40338) (18123 40337) 0
> >  "drwxrwxrwx" nil -3082 240391127)
> >  
> > The inode value here is -3082.
> 
> And what's the real ino?

Dunno. How do I tell that on Windows?

But I doubt you need that info to discover the problem, anyway. I suspect it
is a problem on Windows in the code that detects a too-large integer and
returns a cons in its place.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-03  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-02 22:46 file-attributes returns negative integer for inode value Drew Adams
2008-03-02 23:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-03  0:12   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-03-03  4:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-14 17:31       ` Eli Zaretskii

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