RE: file-attributes returns negative integer for inode value

[Drew Adams]

> > No reliable recipe to reproduce, but for me, some directories give a
> > negative inode number for file-attributes. For example:
> >  
> > M-x (file-attributes "c:/drews-lisp-20/Screenshots") gives:
> >  
> > (t 1 5 5 (18378 24192) (18123 40338) (18123 40337) 0
> >  "drwxrwxrwx" nil -3082 240391127)
> >  
> > The inode value here is -3082.
> 
> And what's the real ino?

Dunno. How do I tell that on Windows?

But I doubt you need that info to discover the problem, anyway. I suspect it
is a problem on Windows in the code that detects a too-large integer and
returns a cons in its place.