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* dired-free-space-program default
@ 2003-06-05 15:22 Dave Love
  2003-06-06 17:02 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Love @ 2003-06-05 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)


I think the default for `dired-free-space-program' is wrong.  Running
`df' can cause serious trouble with the Nightmare File System, and may
be fairly slow anyhow.  I've several times fallen for running dired --
as root, and thus without my normal customizations -- on systems which
have NFS problems of some sort.  Then the invoked df can hang and may
make the system unusable with wedged mount attempts (in ways I don't
claim to understand).

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* Re: dired-free-space-program default
  2003-06-05 15:22 dired-free-space-program default Dave Love
@ 2003-06-06 17:02 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2003-06-06 17:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: bug-gnu-emacs

    I think the default for `dired-free-space-program' is wrong.

It is a very useful feature, and these problems occur only in
specialized situations.  I suggest that you turn it off
in root's .emacs.

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