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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-equal-p
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:50:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1pSshz-0000ZJ-QN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a61es8fh.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:30:58 +0800)

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  > 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.

I'd say that is a bug in Haiku.  The file access time is useless if
examining it automatically changes it.

Or does Haiku offer some other way to examine it without changing it?
If so, can Emacs examine it using that other way?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-17  4:50 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   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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