Re: don't-know values for file-attributes?

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     When a filename handler doesn't know the ctime, mtime, or atime of a
>     file, what should file-attributes return?  Ange-FTP seems to say that
>     (0 0) is the way to express this.
> 
> The clean thing to do would be to use nil for that case.  That may be
> an incompatible change that would require checking the callers and
> changing them, but I think the number of programs that would break is
> fairly small, so the change would be worth making if someone wants to
> do the work.

I'll fix ido.el if someone makes this change.

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