file-attributes returns wrong info on Windows

[Chris Britton]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I recently upgraded from emacs-21.3 to emacs-22.  The file-attributes
function appears to return some incorrect values.  Here is the result
of evaluating the function running under emacs 21.3.

    ;; emacs 21.3
    (file-attributes "D:/Work/emacs/README")
    (nil 1 5 5 (17592 29654) (17448 58611) (17592 29654) 5171 "-rw-rw-rw-" nil 
0 (16460 . 2902))

Here is the result of evaluating the function on the same file in
emacs 22 (cvs head revisions as of 14-July).

    ;; emacs 22
    (file-attributes "D:/Work/emacs/README")
    (nil 1 5 5 (17592 29653) (17448 58610) (17592 29654) 5171 "-rw-rw-rw-" nil 
-25401 (16460 . 2902))

Note that the last access time, modification time, and inode number
are different.  I get the same result whether I build under MinGW or
Cygwin.  I first noticed the problem because a "VC Directory Listing"
was reporting that all my sources had been modified.

Let me know if I can provide more info.

Thanks.

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In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2006-07-15 on JAVACAT
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags 
-Id:/local/imagesupport/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

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