From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:54:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (File Attributes): Document that the device number can also be a cons cell. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.106~108 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=773e81c7414cb31c314b6aed201ecbe8b8619bd6;p=emacs.git (File Attributes): Document that the device number can also be a cons cell. --- diff --git a/lispref/files.texi b/lispref/files.texi index c4a20ee6211..30a65e78cd2 100644 --- a/lispref/files.texi +++ b/lispref/files.texi @@ -1104,8 +1104,10 @@ 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 -element and the file's inode number together give enough information to +The file system number of the file system that the file is in. +Depending on the magnitude of the value, this can be either an integer +or a cons cell, in the same manner as the inode number. This element +and the file's inode number together give enough information to distinguish any two files on the system---no two files can have the same values for both of these numbers. @end enumerate