From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 03:17:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Fix unknown-vs-nonexistent glitch for file timestamps
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~1551^2~45
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba0605779e0e207161441c08afdfac57ed603f69;p=emacs.git

Fix unknown-vs-nonexistent glitch for file timestamps

* src/fileio.c (time_error_value): EACCES means the file
timestamp is unknown, not that the file does not exist.
---

diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
index da32d6c095c..34afbc23da7 100644
--- a/src/fileio.c
+++ b/src/fileio.c
@@ -3612,7 +3612,7 @@ file_offset (Lisp_Object val)
 static struct timespec
 time_error_value (int errnum)
 {
-  int ns = (errnum == ENOENT || errnum == EACCES || errnum == ENOTDIR
+  int ns = (errnum == ENOENT || errnum == ENOTDIR
 	    ? NONEXISTENT_MODTIME_NSECS
 	    : UNKNOWN_MODTIME_NSECS);
   return make_timespec (0, ns);