From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Boruch Baum Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34338: 26.1; delete-file return codes and failures Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:29 -0400 Message-ID: <20191031012641.lam4pwo3cenf7tsu@E15-2016.optimum.net> References: <20190205214737.vswyk7sfmgkliv7v@E15-2016.optimum.net> <87wocmvt5w.fsf@joffe.skangas.se> <20191030222159.rwfn7clgfjh36dze@E15-2016.optimum.net> <875zk5x2v1.fsf@joffe.skangas.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="238183"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Cc: 34338@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 31 02:34:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iPzMA-000zpW-Ms for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1572485617; bh=ZCpFWs8K1mnzXs1tB5bfn1EAsKzmAt3qN9mfW3tu0xw=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=D7nD8Cj6cZ4zkNiO7KJsTF50wc0/1sgMmuAWhMBhPzfUCLrwYu12f6DhScGI1w8Tn urpMYFPvrRliJMqV9XdtpJ73tl6eyNlXqldNG/DmxMyx9STSgq0OkmBGARYEr/sDYO gyWhlgiHXhffmMrlB1QTUYaUM4hMA8VUEP4XP4HE= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Original-Received: from E15-2016.optimum.net ([96.246.226.236]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx004 [212.227.17.184]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1N8ob6-1hvttZ3p5C-015qWh; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:33:37 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875zk5x2v1.fsf@joffe.skangas.se> X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:RY9/ZCoKimVoARrsp9vvUdCh06BDipnUSD4MQJEzBl/f2rHZZgh puM76kW/NKtI2dIHhd60fk05UCS3aWiOeAzDwSTFIuO2yAbwx0ABEoh/L9rIwrLyyT9Ff55 ofgr3ITJeIDzgHgTqhogvvvSDACgO3y58/7ccy7mpvuUbS7jpPju0giLS7q50392UocSLtx iW4S7KZgP7ACmAcJS//oA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:umDrt2jVwPU=:ASqy1a7HJCKH4OK1MKRRpP ORKFjb9orQPziRg2Jk2q6lm9ds1QNntF0YSwPY0iWxt1bpzrPQzq8GPGj9qaOLf7MIw+72nSZ PwM0IKlCmA1r0v+0nlRuu5kSEIiJ7nuEf3FUHTfnaKa/hHuF6XOaq4xerXkJIwBGnIVrH2TA/ IJY8TX8M0nwZhvox/J6w7WqicIpKvtsYffhgtE+ut4PFubLOcm18lxbHDq4uHCWge/ilhW4RU DklhJ5GiLdRtQvBgnZ0cWnvu7zXayU9Lm309fddWeg1X5ZueTNSwZm+HGYo+HLqbTv3IVxahA jmwaB00mT6R0IQC5+z44j1ptgxm8mQcm+psMGOn3B3qkVe87ZG+l2zIJRvFm5jCuE/HvclWsJ VXIsBf/AufJpmb1bYuAO0c8T9DZwfscOrE1LkY4JjHgtfdZH7m2xOQ3Cc/tLDfIeY6mtd5IoO 2jzCy+b75B0OLBl0RF/AsZ1lnt0IOYe+oJREBcvWG5pOuGkeLZsmNz3CaB2FO12jtUHrbdqkF stsizyjHKSyeV5Ldv1utJ/t2MWhm4r5+ORdQcxXf0QWWHojuaqudYgznBg/qW1FaQf8XaCfME VLu96IhQMMheOfEGjCN0jLxRkabZrODcVMVxnaCV+JEz+IPqJcLRIn7ugTHZCg8NFx5475qIZ Bny4gKzSG2NueomiYvGLzsJvwKOHu4kpTARA0sQHahYWS1+X7oH04mCAJ2LjMWmJoaceOKznm kof2G1OLOGES5LyvAyN5+MAx1Su4R69dOs0r24Nw9x7tfAJJK6RV9/nCJka1W7uBrUGvrHw0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170495 Archived-At: On 2019-10-30 23:52, Stefan Kangas wrote: > Boruch Baum writes: > > Do you have a use-case in mind here? Can't the caller just check using > 'file-exists-p' if it matters instead? It _should_ *always* matter. Did you delete the file or not? If it didn't matter, why waste your time attempting the deletion? Having delete-file return the value is: a) consistent with what I think is the expectation of most CS folks; b) the most efficient, since it already knows the exact point of any failure, and basically just passes the return value it gets from the underlying OS. =2D- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0