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28.2; file-attribute-device-number returns a cons cell instead of an integer

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: thievol <at> posteo.net, 58446 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#58446: 28.2;
 file-attribute-device-number returns a cons cell instead of an integer
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:09:05 +0300

> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>, 58446 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:31:06 +0200
> 
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:
> 
> But if we haven't needed that until now, we're probably not going to
> need it going forward, and we should just document the current status
> quo. 
> 
> > And perhaps we could even add a helper function to extract the
> > information for a file's uniqueness:
> >
> > (defsubst file-attribute-file-number (attributes)
> >   "The inode and device numbers in ATTRIBUTES returned by `file-attributes'.
> > It can be used to determine whether two files are identical."
> >   (nthcdr 10 attributes))
> >
> > WDYT?
> 
> Makes sense to me.

Agreed.

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