From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 32246@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32246: 27.0.50; files-tests failure on Cygwin
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:03:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7qevy1u.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d776e3b7-e81a-bbbf-446c-a18af6ff0df8@cornell.edu> (Ken Brown's message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:54:38 -0400")
Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
> Hi Michael,
Hi Ken,
>> The doc of file-name-case-insensitive-p does not require that FILENAME exists.
>
> I think the doc is ambiguous on that. The first sentence of the doc
> in the elisp manual says, "Sometimes file names or their parts need to
> be compared as strings, in which case it’s important to know whether
> the underlying filesystem is case-insensitive." This certainly
> suggests that the file should exist, but there's no indication of what
> the function returns for a non-existent file. And the code doesn't
> attempt to detect this case.
>
> I don't know what the right solution is.
The doc speaks from "the underlying filesystem". So I believe *this*
must be checked. For non-existing files, the respective directory (up to
the part which exist) should be checked. In case of
"/non-existing-dir/non-existing-file", "/" must be checked.
> Best regards,
>
> Ken
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-26 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-22 18:10 bug#32246: 27.0.50; files-tests failure on Cygwin Ken Brown
2018-07-22 18:23 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-23 17:01 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-25 12:00 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-25 13:37 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-25 16:46 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-25 16:56 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-25 17:33 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-26 13:56 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-26 14:54 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-26 15:03 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2018-07-27 18:34 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-27 19:30 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-27 20:30 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-27 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-27 21:32 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-27 21:34 ` Ken Brown
2018-07-26 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-27 15:27 ` Michael Albinus
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