Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mappeddrive

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Are you saying that files with device number below a certain threshold
> are guaranteed to be on a remote mounted volume?  If so, what is that
> threshold, and is this universal among Posix platforms?

No. I'm just saying that a device number identifies a file system
uniquely. And it is good for retrieving further information.

> Also, wouldn't file-attributes (which calls `stat' internally) try to
> access the mounted volume, and thus be as slow as the file access we
> want to avoid?  For example, I thought that a call to `stat' would try
> to mount automounted volumes, but perhaps I'm confused.

That I don't know either. Shall be checked. I do it tomorrow.

Best regards, Michael.