From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>, 2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com
Subject: bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:05:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwsaordzl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i2p9fu5.fsf@blah.blah>
> From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:02:26 +1100
> Cc: 2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>
> > default-directory to "~/" rather than "/"
>
> What is it that's not good about "/"? It doesn't have to be readable or
> anything I don't think, just somewhere capable of a chdir().
Doesn't chdir need certain rights? what if the user doesn't have them?
> Either way what I missed from my first post was that a change to
> default-directory ought to absolutize the given dir argument, so that
> say
>
> (get-free-disk-space ".")
>
> gives info about the original default-directory, not the mangled one.
What "mangled one"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-17 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87d4cjzf89.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2009-03-10 22:24 ` bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist Kevin Ryde
2009-03-11 2:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-11 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-11 21:00 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-03-15 2:40 ` bug#2631: marked as done (get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-08-16 0:40 ` bug#2631: marked as done (get-free-disk-space when home dir also " Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-03-17 0:02 ` bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist Kevin Ryde
2009-03-17 4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-03-27 23:32 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-03-27 23:17 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-03-27 23:25 ` Processed: " Emacs bug Tracking System
[not found] <871vnclhoz.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2009-07-23 22:19 ` bug#3911: 23.1.50; get-free-disk-space relative to non-existent default-directory Kevin Ryde
2009-08-16 0:40 ` bug#3911: marked as done (23.1.50; get-free-disk-space relative to non-existent default-directory) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-10-02 0:35 ` bug#3911: marked as done (get-free-disk-space race condition on default-directory test) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-08-18 0:23 ` bug#3911: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist Kevin Ryde
2009-08-18 1:02 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-19 21:43 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-08-19 22:03 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-08-22 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-24 23:45 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-08-25 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 1:32 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-08-29 3:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 1:37 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-09-01 6:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-07 0:28 ` Kevin Ryde
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