Re: Enhancement for file-attributes

[Stefan Monnier]

> Would it be a good idea to enhance file-attributes by adding one more
> optional argument to it, which, when non-nil, will cause Emacs call
> 'stat', not 'lstat', on the argument file name?  This should avoid the
> need to call file-chase-links when all we want is to get the
> attributes of the file pointed to by the symlink.

It would have made a lot of sense originally, but I'm wondering whether
it's worth the trouble now.  In how many places would we save the
file-chase-links all?  Are these places important?


        Stefan