From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:00:10 +1100 Message-ID: <87ocw77p2d.fsf@blah.blah> References: <87wsaxhv97.fsf@blah.blah> Reply-To: Kevin Ryde , 2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236806655 1006 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2009 21:24:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 11 22:25:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LhVvO-0006xe-Fp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:25:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LhVu2-0001hN-IC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LhVtx-0001fi-Mm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LhVtw-0001eA-N7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43509 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LhVtw-0001dv-DD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:56852) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhVtw-00024a-0O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n2BLNfeJ022858; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:23:41 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n2BLA5Z9019386; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:10:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Kevin Ryde Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:10:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 2631 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2631-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B2631.123680528317112 (code B ref 2631); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:10:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2631) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 11 Mar 2009 21:01:23 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mailout2.pacific.net.au (mailout2-2.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.225]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n2BL1Fsn017106 for <2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:01:16 -0700 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.163]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F5E1B41B2; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:01:13 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from blah.blah (ppp2278.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.34.120]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87ACC2740F; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:01:07 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by blah.blah with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LhVX8-0000j7-IG; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:00:10 +1100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:45 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:26249 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > why not bind default-directory to dir? I think that'd make it error out on a non-existant dir argument, where currently it returns nil (from the df parsing code, and it looks like from file-system-info in dosfns.c). There's a few other places binding to "/", like man.el and message.el, if it ought to be something else ...