Hello, long time emacs user; first time reporter. Apologies if I do anything wrong here.

The verbose output for list-directory always shows the free space for the current directory of the buffer where it was called, not the target directory that is supplied as an argument.

This may have been first introduced in 849051903e7, while fixing this report:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-03/msg00251.html
The result was that, while the *Directory* output buffer's current directory was set correctly, setting it last meant that the free space calculation always took place in "." rather than the argument to list-directory.

Here are commands/output to demonstrate. Note that the free space changes for the same directory argument when I change the current directory, since the two different directories are on different disks.


  (eval-expression (pwd) t)
  "Directory ~/emacs/"

  (eval-expression (list-directory "~" t) t)
  "/home/emacsdev/"

  (insert-buffer-substring "*Directory*")
  Directory /home/emacsdev
  total used in directory 0 available 15.5 GiB
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 /emacsdev /emacsdev 26 Sep 16 17:45 emacs -> /media/ubuntu/turkey/emacs
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 /emacsdev /emacsdev 34 Sep 16 17:44 emacs-project -> /media/ubuntu/turkey/emacs-project


  (cd "/")

  (eval-expression (pwd) t)
  "Directory /"

  (eval-expression (list-directory "~" t) t)
  "/home/emacsdev/"

  (insert-buffer-substring "*Directory*")
  Directory /home/emacsdev
  total used in directory 0 available 7.7 GiB
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 /emacsdev /emacsdev 26 Sep 16 17:45 emacs -> /media/ubuntu/turkey/emacs
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 /emacsdev /emacsdev 34 Sep 16 17:44 emacs-project -> /media/ubuntu/turkey/emacs-project

Changing the call to get-free-disk-space seemed to work in the attached patch, but I haven't attempted to dig deeper and check for any regressions. I would be glad to do that, but would need more time to research and would probably ask for more help to do it.

Thanks for everything!



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