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THIS IS NOT REALLY A BUG REPORT BUT A RFE

Very often one can access the same file using different names.  For
example SunOS 4.1 physically store under /var/spool what older version
of SunOS used to store in /usr/spool. But SunOS provides a symlink
which is supposed to make  the change transparent.

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           12 Apr 16 18:45 /usr/spool ->../var/spool

Suppose I have a file which "canonic" (ie: without symbolic links)
pathanme is /usr/spool/X/log.  If I sucessessively do
M-xfind-file/usr/spool/X/log and M-xfind-file/var/spool/X/log, I end
up with two buffers where I really want one: in the 2 cases, I
reference the same file so I would have expected gnu-emacs smart enough to
figure out that there is only one file involved.
It can do that using st_dev and st_ino files of the struct returned by
stat() and comparing it do the same fields (save away) for the other
gnuemacs buffers tied to a file,
note: I am not even sure that scheme work with fancy file systems like LOFS

I agree that I should use always the same name to acess the same file
but I am not yet totally accustomed  to use /var/spool instead of /usr/spool
so I use both of them! sigh !

note: I am using  emacs-version 18.54


        stef
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