Re: Tramp and fixnum (was: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:34:25 -0700
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > What do you mean with `list-attributes'? Maybe `file-attributes'?
> 
> Yes, sorry, I meant 'file-attributes'. The fishy-looking code is in 
> tramp-convert-file-attributes. Here's one snippet:
> 
>      (when (and (floatp (nth 2 attr))
>                 (<= (nth 2 attr) most-positive-fixnum))
>        (setcar (nthcdr 2 attr) (round (nth 2 attr))))
> 
> Although this snippet shouldn't hurt, it should be unnecessary once 
> file-attributes is fixed to not return floats.

Fixed in what version of Emacs?  Tramp wants to support more than just
the latest master version.

> The main offender is the inode converter in that function, which splits 
> integers 
> into three parts, whereas it should simply keep the integers as-is since they 
> don't overflow any more.

They do in older Emacs versions, AFAIR.