Re: file-equal-p

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Someone says that Haiku changes the file access time every time `stat'
  > is called on a file, and as a result `file-equal-p' doesn't work, as it
  > compares the file attributes of both operands.

I'd say that is a bug in Haiku.  The file access time is useless if
examining it automatically changes it.

Or does Haiku offer some other way to examine it without changing it?
If so, can Emacs examine it using that other way?

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