From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19701: 24.3; directory-files platform-dependent behaviour when directory doesn't exist Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:37:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83lhkmor0a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8361bsoxez.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422459507 18328 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2015 15:38:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19701@debbugs.gnu.org To: Vida =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 16:38:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUh9-00086J-6g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:38:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUh8-0001Eq-H0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:38:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUgx-0001Ds-R3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:38:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUgs-0006NB-Ln for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:38:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUgs-0006N7-Hp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:38:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUgs-0007Dz-0R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:38:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:38:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19701 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19701-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19701.142245948127768 (code B ref 19701); Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:38:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19701) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jan 2015 15:38:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59133 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUgq-0007Dk-SR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:38:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58968) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGUgo-0007DT-Jl for 19701@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NIW00I008KHMG00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 19701@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:37:51 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NIW00I9O8R1M910@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:37:50 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:98837 Archived-At: > From: Vida Gábor > Cc: 19701-done@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:45:53 +0100 > > > This was never a problem, though. What exactly does Gnus do that this > > subtlety gets in the way? > > I'm migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux, and while I'm doing this Gnus didn't start > properly with my old configuration. I use %F in gnus-group-line-format, which ends up > calling gnus-total-fetched-for. This function calculates the total amount of disk > space used by cache and agent. I use Gnus agent but don't use cache (gnus-use-cache > is nil). > > Later, gnus-cache-update-file-total-fetched-for iterates over the files that belong > to the cahe of the group. This list in nil on Windows, so I had no problem, but on > GNU/Linux, it raises an error, because I have no cache directory. In that case, I probably should clarify how I fixed the problem: now Emacs will signal an error on Windows as well. I think there's a test missing in Gnus, but I'll defer to Gnus expert to judge that.