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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Enhancement for file-attributes
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> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:14:14 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On 09/30/2012 07:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Would it be a good idea to enhance file-attributes by adding one more
> > optional argument to it, which, when non-nil, will cause Emacs call
> > 'stat', not 'lstat', on the argument file name?
> 
> Yes, thanks, I've wanted that myself in the past.  This seems like a
> no-brainer so I installed it as trunk bzr 110295.

Thanks.