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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-equal-p
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:18:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fsb681me.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a61es8fh.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:30:58 +0800)

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:30:58 +0800
> 
> Someone says that Haiku changes the file access time every time `stat'
> is called on a file, and as a result `file-equal-p' doesn't work, as it
> compares the file attributes of both operands.
> 
> Ideas?  Thanks.

Fix Haiku?  A 'stat' call accesses the directory and file's meta-data,
not the file itself, so what Haiku does makes no sense, IMO.

But if you cannot fix Haiku, a suitable haiku-only change in
file-equal-p, whereby the access times are exempt from comparison, is
a possibility.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-16  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87a61es8fh.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-02-16  1:30 ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-16  8:18   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-02-16  8:43     ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-16  8:57       ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-16  9:59         ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-16 11:52           ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-16 12:34             ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-16 12:42               ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17  2:40                 ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-17  6:26                   ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17  7:07                     ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-17  8:32                       ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 11:05                         ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-16  9:15       ` file-equal-p Andreas Schwab
2023-02-16  9:58         ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-16 10:35         ` file-equal-p Michael Albinus
2023-02-16 12:35           ` file-equal-p Po Lu
2023-02-16 12:43             ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17  4:50   ` file-equal-p Richard Stallman
2023-02-17 10:02     ` file-equal-p Andreas Schwab
2023-02-17 12:25       ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 12:45         ` file-equal-p tomas
2023-02-17 13:17         ` file-equal-p Andreas Schwab
2023-02-18 12:25           ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-18 14:04             ` file-equal-p Andreas Schwab

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