From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, 58446@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58446: 28.2; file-attribute-device-number returns a cons cell instead of an integer
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:13:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmexcn1h.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lepmusw5.fsf@posteo.net> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:11:18 +0000")
Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:
> The device-number in file-attributes (nth 11) is a cons cell when called
> on remote files (see tramp-get-device).
> It would be great to notify this in Emacs documentation and how to
> interpret this value e.g. (-1 . 1).
> I noticed this in fixing a bug in dired-async.el, the code was using `=`
> to compare the two values which is legitimate according to docstring.
Hm... would it be possible for Tramp to stash that information
somewhere else? It is (as you say) documented to be a number.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-12 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-11 18:11 bug#58446: 28.2; file-attribute-device-number returns a cons cell instead of an integer Thierry Volpiatto
2022-10-12 11:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-10-12 14:57 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-13 6:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-13 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-13 19:16 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-14 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-14 17:28 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-14 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-14 19:03 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-14 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-14 19:33 ` Michael Albinus
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