From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, gregory@heytings.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master daea9b3 1/2: Read mailcaps again only when necessary
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:07:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva6inh9mq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h7cvln71.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 01 Nov 2021 20:56:18 +0200")
> That's why I think we should also record the size and the inode, and
> we probably should do that before taking file-truename. The latter is
> just for recording.
There's a case to be made to just store most of the output of
`file-attributes`, indeed, instead of just the modification time.
> Of course, the situation you described is also highly improbable: why
> should the same program care about two files in exactly that sequence
> as to make your point for you? What are the chances of that?
Maybe it's highly unlikely, indeed.
But I don't see what's the benefit of calling `file-truename`: I know it
makes it slower and introduces an (unlikely) broken corner case, but
what's the upside?
Stefan
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2021-11-01 16:56 ` master daea9b3 1/2: Read mailcaps again only when necessary Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 17:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 17:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-11-02 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-02 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 18:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 19:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-02 14:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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