From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 06:22:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: The inode number can be an integer.
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The inode number can be an integer.
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diff --git a/lispref/files.texi b/lispref/files.texi
index 950eea2c2af..c951456951a 100644
--- a/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/lispref/files.texi
@@ -964,7 +964,10 @@ as in @samp{ls -l}.
 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