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The inode number can be an integer.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Thu, 22 May 1997 06:22:30 +0000
parents 72aec83491a2
children 161cc8316f98
files lispref/files.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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