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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-equal-p
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:02:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8k06247.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1pSshz-0000ZJ-QN@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:50:55 -0500")

On Feb 16 2023, Richard Stallman wrote:

> If so, can Emacs examine it using that other way?

The right way to solve the issue is to only compare the inode and device
numbers.  The other attributes (other than the type) can change any time
for unrelated reasons, and do not define the identity of a file.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-17 10:02 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   ` file-equal-p Eli Zaretskii
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     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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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