bug#51523: 29.0.50; gnus-mime-view-part-externally very slow

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But the real answer to that question is to compare the contents, not
> file's attributes.  Testing attributes is an approximation, and once
> we are using an approximation, it is legitimate to ask when it's okay
> for the approximation to fail.

The doc string clearly says that it's about the file's modification
time.

> Basically, comparing time stamps is what Make does, and Make doesn't
> care about the time stamp becoming older.  So why should we?

I don't see why we should care what Make does.

> And if by "I want" you mean Gnus, then maybe we should name this
> function gnus-has-mailcap-file-changed-p, and stop pretending that it
> has more general use?

It's not a Gnus function, and the first instance of its use is not in
Gnus, but in mailcap.

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