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The inode number can be an integer.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 22 May 1997 06:22:30 +0000 |
parents | a5d9cbc4e2c5 |
children | 66d807bdc5b4 |
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962 @item | 962 @item |
963 @code{t} if the file's @sc{gid} would change if file were | 963 @code{t} if the file's @sc{gid} would change if file were |
964 deleted and recreated; @code{nil} otherwise. | 964 deleted and recreated; @code{nil} otherwise. |
965 | 965 |
966 @item | 966 @item |
967 The file's inode number. | 967 The file's inode number. If possible, this is an integer. If the inode |
968 number is too large to be represented as an integer in Emacs Lisp, then | |
969 the value has the form @code{(@var{high} . @var{low})}, where @var{low} | |
970 holds the low 16 bits. | |
968 | 971 |
969 @item | 972 @item |
970 The file system number of the file system that the file is in. This | 973 The file system number of the file system that the file is in. This |
971 element and the file's inode number together give enough information to | 974 element and the file's inode number together give enough information to |
972 distinguish any two files on the system---no two files can have the same | 975 distinguish any two files on the system---no two files can have the same |