Subject: Re: bug#48578: 28.0.50; Native-compiled files of some preloaded files not loaded at dump time

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 19:13:02 +0100

Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Thanks, I will try that.  But why not use realpath at all times, even
>> if file-truename is available?  They do the same thing, AFAIK, no?
>
> AFAIK yes but the file-truename implementation didn't look sufficiently
> trivial to be sure they are really equivalent with the quick skim I had.

The main difference is that file-truename heeds file name handlers, no?

Thanks,

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Basil