Rename `file-attribute-file-number' to `file-attribute-file-identifier'

* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Attributes):
* etc/NEWS:
* lisp/files.el (find-buffer-visiting, find-file-noselect)
(set-visited-file-name, basic-save-buffer)
(file-attribute-file-identifier):
* lisp/startup.el (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path):
* lisp/eshell/em-unix.el (eshell-shuffle-files):
* src/dired.c (Ffile_attributes):
Rename `file-attribute-file-number' to `file-attribute-file-identifier'.

6 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi
index 2467364dc6e..b26d4f10585 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ to distinguish remote filesystems from local ones.
 The file's inode and device together give enough information
 to distinguish any two files on the system---no two files can have the
 same values for both of these attributes.  This tuple that uniquely
-identifies the file is returned by @code{file-attribute-file-number}.
+identifies the file is returned by @code{file-attribute-file-identifier}.
 
 For example, here are the file attributes for @file{files.texi}:
 
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index b73c2c47d5d..96415870523 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -3159,7 +3159,7 @@ The following generalized variables have been made obsolete:
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.1
 
 +++
-** New accessor function 'file-attribute-file-number'.
+** New accessor function 'file-attribute-file-identifier'.
 It returns the list of the inode number and device identifier
 retrieved by 'file-attributes'.  This value can be used to identify a
 file uniquely.  The device identifier can be a single number or (for
diff --git a/lisp/eshell/em-unix.el b/lisp/eshell/em-unix.el
index 378b0ceeeae..4b5e4dd53ed 100644
--- a/lisp/eshell/em-unix.el
+++ b/lisp/eshell/em-unix.el
@@ -374,8 +374,8 @@ Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.")
 	     (file-attribute-inode-number attr)
 	     (file-attribute-device-number attr-target)
 	     (file-attribute-device-number attr)
-	     (equal (file-attribute-file-number attr-target)
-		    (file-attribute-file-number attr)))
+	     (equal (file-attribute-file-identifier attr-target)
+		    (file-attribute-file-identifier attr)))
 	(eshell-error (format-message "%s: `%s' and `%s' are the same file\n"
 				      command (car files) target)))
        (t
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index dd10f7399cc..3fa0f2f3b81 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -2164,7 +2164,7 @@ If there is no such live buffer, return nil."
             (setq list (cdr list)))
           found)
         (let* ((attributes (file-attributes truename))
-               (number (file-attribute-file-number attributes))
+               (number (file-attribute-file-identifier attributes))
                (list (buffer-list)) found)
           (and buffer-file-numbers-unique
                (car-safe number)       ;Make sure the inode is not just nil.
@@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@ the various files."
       (let* ((buf (get-file-buffer filename))
 	     (truename (abbreviate-file-name (file-truename filename)))
 	     (attributes (file-attributes truename))
-	     (number (file-attribute-file-number attributes))
+	     (number (file-attribute-file-identifier attributes))
 	     ;; Find any buffer for a file that has same truename.
 	     (other (and (not buf)
                          (find-buffer-visiting
@@ -4745,7 +4745,7 @@ the old visited file has been renamed to the new name FILENAME."
 	      (setq buffer-file-name truename))))
     (setq buffer-file-number
 	  (if filename
-	      (file-attribute-file-number (file-attributes buffer-file-name))
+	      (file-attribute-file-identifier (file-attributes buffer-file-name))
 	    nil))
     ;; write-file-functions is normally used for things like ftp-find-file
     ;; that visit things that are not local files as if they were files.
@@ -5734,7 +5734,8 @@ Before and after saving the buffer, this function runs
 		  (setq save-buffer-coding-system last-coding-system-used)
 	        (setq buffer-file-coding-system last-coding-system-used))
 	      (setq buffer-file-number
-		    (file-attribute-file-number (file-attributes buffer-file-name)))
+		    (file-attribute-file-identifier
+                     (file-attributes buffer-file-name)))
 	      (if setmodes
 		  (condition-case ()
 		      (progn
@@ -8662,7 +8663,7 @@ It is a nonnegative integer."
 It is an integer or a cons cell of integers."
   (nth 11 attributes))
 
-(defsubst file-attribute-file-number (attributes)
+(defsubst file-attribute-file-identifier (attributes)
   "The inode and device numbers in ATTRIBUTES returned by `file-attributes'.
 The value is a list of the form (INODENUM DEVICE), where DEVICE could be
 either a single number or a cons cell of two numbers.
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index c7faf4abc6f..725984b815b 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -458,7 +458,8 @@ or `CVS', and any subdirectory that contains a file named `.nosearch'."
 	;; The Windows version doesn't report meaningful inode numbers, so
 	;; use the canonicalized absolute file name of the directory instead.
 	(setq attrs (or canonicalized
-			(file-attribute-file-number (file-attributes this-dir))))
+			(file-attribute-file-identifier
+                         (file-attributes this-dir))))
 	(unless (member attrs normal-top-level-add-subdirs-inode-list)
 	  (push attrs normal-top-level-add-subdirs-inode-list)
 	  (dolist (file contents)
diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c
index 1b4edf20483..ef729df5d2b 100644
--- a/src/dired.c
+++ b/src/dired.c
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ Elements of the attribute list are:
 Large integers are bignums, so `eq' might not work on them.
 On most filesystems, the combination of the inode and the device
 identifier uniquely identifies the file.  This unique file identification
-is provided by the access function `file-attribute-file-number'.
+is provided by the access function `file-attribute-file-identifier'.
 
 On MS-Windows, performance depends on `w32-get-true-file-attributes',
 which see.