summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/dired.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPhilip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>2022-10-15 17:38:30 +0200
committerPhilip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>2022-10-15 17:38:30 +0200
commit01e45efcd44e92dd259283df0e62653c7c20e9cc (patch)
tree552c1a6ce7d52b897cf5f089d6c589921efbe9bd /src/dired.c
parent982c0e6c15535defcf6ac3c4d4169708c60efc18 (diff)
parent5933055a3e7387b0095f0df7876a208ab15f4f45 (diff)
downloademacs-01e45efcd44e92dd259283df0e62653c7c20e9cc.tar.gz
emacs-01e45efcd44e92dd259283df0e62653c7c20e9cc.tar.bz2
emacs-01e45efcd44e92dd259283df0e62653c7c20e9cc.zip
Merge branch 'master' into feature/package+vc
Diffstat (limited to 'src/dired.c')
-rw-r--r--src/dired.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c
index c2c099f0a5f..ef729df5d2b 100644
--- a/src/dired.c
+++ b/src/dired.c
@@ -923,11 +923,12 @@ Elements of the attribute list are:
8. File modes, as a string of ten letters or dashes as in ls -l.
9. An unspecified value, present only for backward compatibility.
10. inode number, as a nonnegative integer.
-11. Filesystem device number, as an integer.
+11. Filesystem device identifier, as an integer or a cons cell of integers.
Large integers are bignums, so `eq' might not work on them.
On most filesystems, the combination of the inode and the device
-number uniquely identifies the file.
+identifier uniquely identifies the file. This unique file identification
+is provided by the access function `file-attribute-file-identifier'.
On MS-Windows, performance depends on `w32-get-true-file-attributes',
which see.