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| author | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2022-10-13 21:13:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2022-10-13 21:13:45 +0200 |
| commit | cbd04ad3d572850775f18bde868c71abcde733ed (patch) | |
| tree | cca60866632ff253cbc5062ab7483379e81a1376 /src/dired.c | |
| parent | 10f55975d34dd7299f72fdf8d93fd8cbe2e41e25 (diff) | |
Clarify structure of file-attribute's device number
* doc/lispref/buffers.texi (Buffer File Name): Fix description of
buffer-file-number.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Attributes): Clarify type of device
number. Describe file-attribute-file-number. (Bug#58446)
* etc/NEWS: Mention file-attribute-file-number.
* lisp/files.el (buffer-file-number, file-attribute-device-number)
(file-attribute-collect): Fix docstring.
(file-attribute-file-number): New defsubst.
(find-buffer-visiting, find-file-noselect)
(set-visited-file-name, basic-save-buffer):
* lisp/startup.el (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path):
* lisp/eshell/em-unix.el (eshell-shuffle-files): Use it.
* src/dired.c (Ffile_attributes): Fix docstring.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/dired.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/dired.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c index c2c099f0a5f..32c083ad7b0 100644 --- a/src/dired.c +++ b/src/dired.c @@ -923,11 +923,12 @@ Elements of the attribute list are: 8. File modes, as a string of ten letters or dashes as in ls -l. 9. An unspecified value, present only for backward compatibility. 10. inode number, as a nonnegative integer. -11. Filesystem device number, as an integer. +11. Filesystem device number, as an integer or a cons cell of integers. Large integers are bignums, so `eq' might not work on them. On most filesystems, the combination of the inode and the device -number uniquely identifies the file. +number uniquely identifies the file. This is provided by the access +function `file-attribute-file-number'. On MS-Windows, performance depends on `w32-get-true-file-attributes', which see. |