+2008-05-10 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * msdog.texi (Windows Files): Update documentation of
+ w32-get-true-file-attributes.
+
2008-05-09 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
* files.texi, vc-xtra.texi, vc1-xtra.texi: Document the new VC
2008-05-08 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
* killing.texi (Appending Kills): Remove a strangely off-topic index
- entry.
+ entry "television".
2008-05-07 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
default ignores letter-case in file names during completion.
@vindex w32-get-true-file-attributes
- If the variable @code{w32-get-true-file-attributes} is
-non-@code{nil} (the default), Emacs tries to determine the accurate
-link counts for files. This option is only useful on NTFS volumes,
-and it considerably slows down Dired and other features, so disable it
-on slow machines.
+ The variable @code{w32-get-true-file-attributes} controls whether
+Emacs should issue additional system calls to determine more
+accurately file attributes in primitives like @code{file-attributes}
+and @code{directory-files-and-attributes}. These additional calls are
+needed to report correct file ownership, link counts and file types
+for special files such as pipes. Without these system calls, file
+ownership will be attributed to the current user, link counts will be
+always reported as 1, and special files will be reported as regular
+files.
+
+ If the value of this variable is @code{local} (the default), Emacs
+will issue these additional system calls only for files on local fixed
+drives. Any other non-@code{nil} value means do this even for
+removable and remote volumes, where this could potentially slow down
+Dired and other related features. The value of @code{nil} means never
+issue those system calls. Non-@code{nil} values are only useful on
+NTFS volumes, which support hard links and file security.
@node ls in Lisp
@section Emulation of @code{ls} on MS-Windows