From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:05:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d4cjzf89.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <877i2p9fu5.fsf@blah.blah> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237263844 10716 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 04:24:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com To: Kevin Ryde , 2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 05:25:20 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 1LjQrg-00086d-38 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:25:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQqJ-0001M2-Mw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQqE-0001Lr-RF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQqA-0001Jy-0W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43945 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQq9-0001Js-Tp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:53514) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjQq9-0000M2-8O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:23:45 -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 n2H4NgCA025850; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:23:42 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n2H4F4lW023572; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:15:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:15:04 +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=B2631.123726271121715 (code B ref 2631); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:15:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2631) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 17 Mar 2009 04:05:11 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il (mtaout1.012.net.il [84.95.2.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n2H456q9020187 for <2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:05:08 -0700 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout1.012.net.il by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KGM00300TRJ5500@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for 2631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:05:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.218.225]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KGM00FIWU1N7Z50@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:05:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <877i2p9fu5.fsf@blah.blah> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:23:50 -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:26419 Archived-At: > From: Kevin Ryde > 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"?