# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 864282150 0
# Node ID eb712b69e49523658cfa6f461db739b3953737c0
# Parent  72aec83491a256756f7379969ce9dbcc645d6c2e
The inode number can be an integer.

diff -r 72aec83491a2 -r eb712b69e495 lispref/files.texi
--- a/lispref/files.texi	Thu May 22 06:21:22 1997 +0000
+++ b/lispref/files.texi	Thu May 22 06:22:30 1997 +0000
@@ -964,7 +964,10 @@
 deleted and recreated; @code{nil} otherwise.
 
 @item
-The file's inode number.
+The file's inode number.  If possible, this is an integer.  If the inode
+number is too large to be represented as an integer in Emacs Lisp, then
+the value has the form @code{(@var{high} . @var{low})}, where @var{low}
+holds the low 16 bits.
 
 @item
 The file system number of the file system that the file is in.  This