From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-equal-p
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 14:25:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a61byxcz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0uo5t37.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:17:48 +0100)
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:17:48 +0100
>
> On Feb 17 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > That depends on the semantics of "files are equal". If the issue is
> > only whether two file names point to the same file's data, then yes,
> > using file-attribute-file-identifier is TRT. But that is not the only
> > possible semantics of these tests.
>
> What are those other semantics?
The simplest one is when the caller wants to check whether all of the
attributes of two sets are identical, for example in order to see if
the file was accessed since the last check.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-18 12:25 UTC|newest]
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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 ` 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 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-02-18 14:04 ` file-equal-p Andreas Schwab
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