From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancement for file-attributes Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:14:14 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5068B626.7050002@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83a9w7egdd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349039665 21513 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2012 21:14:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 23:14:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TIQqM-0002oj-RH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:14:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIQqH-0006i1-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIQqE-0006hj-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIQqD-0005Oh-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:41068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIQqC-0005JX-Ne; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB56D39E800E; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:14:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5w6g667ZjdLE; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A77439E800D; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:14:13 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: <83a9w7egdd.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153782 Archived-At: 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.