Re: CVS Emacs on Windows XP takes 60 seconds to start

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:40:19 -0400
> 
> > The only Emacs primitives that _really_ need all of the info in
> > `struct stat' are `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'.
> 
> Then again, most callers of file-attributes similarly only use some
> subset of the info. :-(

But normally they do need attributes getting which is worth the
trouble.  Barring those cases where file-attributes is used where
file-exists-p or some such would suffice, of course; but those are
bugs.