From 2a7d450579ac617b7ffd6f1cc32c974fe4c30235 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 06:22:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The inode number can be an integer. --- lispref/files.texi | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.39.5