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Re: file-equal-p


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: file-equal-p
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:02:48 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux)

On Feb 16 2023, Richard Stallman wrote:

> If so, can Emacs examine it using that other way?

The right way to solve the issue is to only compare the inode and device
numbers.  The other attributes (other than the type) can change any time
for unrelated reasons, and do not define the identity of a file.

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