From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Enhancement for file-attributes Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:26:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83a9w7egdd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349015198 1117 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2012 14:26:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:26:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 16:26:44 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 1TIKTk-0007hF-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:26:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIKTe-00056T-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIKTc-00055X-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIKTb-0006Lo-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:43549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIKTb-0006Li-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MB6002002KCDI00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:26:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MB6002242S93MB0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:26:34 +0200 (IST) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:153755 Archived-At: 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? This should avoid the need to call file-chase-links when all we want is to get the attributes of the file pointed to by the symlink.