From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9139@debbugs.gnu.org, bzg@altern.org
Subject: bug#9139: 24.0.50; Inappropriate warning: "File no longer exists!"
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:49:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31uvnw2uz.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1R2d5O-0008ID-Eo@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:00:10 -0400")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> (visited-file-modtime)
>> => (-1 65535)
>>
>> in foo.txt. But is that a bug?
>
> No. -1 as the modtime exactly means that the file does not exist. So
> at most we need to update the doc string, assuming that we want to
> reveal such implementation details.
I've now updated the doc string. It seems like a non-optimal return
value for this situation (nil might make more sense), though, but
changing that might break stuff, I guess.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-11 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-21 9:29 bug#9139: 24.0.50; Inappropriate warning: "File no longer exists!" Bastien
2011-07-21 10:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-21 10:27 ` Bastien
2011-09-11 2:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11 14:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-09-11 18:57 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-11 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11 23:32 ` bug#7547: Glenn Morris
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