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diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi index b9d4e87dc73..2467364dc6e 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/files.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi @@ -1404,16 +1404,16 @@ The file's inode number (@code{file-attribute-inode-number}), a nonnegative integer. @item -The filesystem number of the device that the file is on +The filesystem's identifier of the device that the file is on (@code{file-attribute-device-number}), an integer or a cons cell of -integers. The latter is sometimes used by remote files, in order to -distinguish the remote filesystems from the local ones. +two integers. The latter is sometimes used by remote files, in order +to distinguish remote filesystems from local ones. @end enumerate -The file's inode and device numbers together give enough information +The file's inode and device together give enough information to distinguish any two files on the system---no two files can have the -same values for both of these numbers. This tupel is returned by -@code{file-attribute-file-number}. +same values for both of these attributes. This tuple that uniquely +identifies the file is returned by @code{file-attribute-file-number}. For example, here are the file attributes for @file{files.texi}: |