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