Re: Tramp and fixnum (was: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch)

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> >       (when (and (floatp (nth 2 attr))
> >                  (<= (nth 2 attr) most-positive-fixnum))
> >         (setcar (nthcdr 2 attr) (round (nth 2 attr))))
> >
> > Although this snippet shouldn't hurt, it should be unnecessary once
> > file-attributes is fixed to not return floats.
>
> Fixed in what version of Emacs?  Tramp wants to support more than just
> the latest master version.

Good point, I keep forgetting. In that case, that snippet won't hurt.

I just now installed patches into Emacs to fix file-attributes as mentioned 
above, along with a bunch of other functions dealing with system types like 
ino_t and pid_t.