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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: flitterio@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:40:19 -0400
> 
> > The only Emacs primitives that _really_ need all of the info in
> > `struct stat' are `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'.
> 
> Then again, most callers of file-attributes similarly only use some
> subset of the info. :-(

But normally they do need attributes getting which is worth the
trouble.  Barring those cases where file-attributes is used where
file-exists-p or some such would suffice, of course; but those are
bugs.