GNU bug report logs - #31
file-attributes returns negative integer for inode value

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 03:15:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 31-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-attributes returns negative integer for inode value
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:31:47 +0200

> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:25:42 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: schwab <at> suse.de, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> 
> The problem is a little bit different: obviously, a 16-bit value
> cannot overflow ab EMACS_INT.  The problem is we don't keep the value
> positive.  I will work on this soon.

(For some value of "soon".)

Done.
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