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This function compares what BUFFER (by default, the current-buffer) has recorded for the modification time of its visited file against the actual modification time of the file as recorded by the operating system. The two should be the same unless some other process has written the file since Emacs visited or saved it.
The function returns ‘t’ if the last actual modification time and Emacs’s recorded modification time are the same, ‘nil’ otherwise.