From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:11:49 -0700 Message-ID: <00af01c8a3fc$b2bac5d0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <87bq781bf7.fsf@gmx.de> <000a01c8a314$5fff7630$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <000d01c8a324$97820590$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <000f01c8a334$b2a40660$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <000101c8a37f$eeb543d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <480C4220.3030100@gnu.org> <000701c8a383$e545a890$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208816110 22743 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 22:15:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 22 00:15:44 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jo4IO-0000Vm-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:15:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo4HX-0007E0-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo4HR-0007Da-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:14:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo4HH-0007CR-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo4HH-0007CN-4G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jo4Gi-0006tJ-IG; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m3LMD7Fi000387; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:13:08 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m3LMD6iD022990; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:13:06 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3655831671208815907; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:11:47 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:11:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acij51NHJyUTtc40TC6b2C4ZW7kwrAAEwVUQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95708 Archived-At: > > Whether I access a local Windows drive (even a slow one) or > > a Windows mapped network drive that happens to be in India, > > there is a world of difference. > > No one in their right minds will mount a drive half the globe away via > NFS or similar networking filesystem. They will always use something > like Tramp or ftp. So this problem simply does not exist in practice. I didn't say anything about NFS or similar; I mentioned Windows mapped network drives. I don't know what your idea of "does not exist in practice" is, but I work for a fairly large corporation with developers and servers all over the planet, and that is how we work. I have mapped drives to UNIX and GNU/Linux machines (running Samba), and those machines can be anywhere. In some cases, it is faster to access a machine far away than a machine next door - it all depends on the particular network properties in play (protocols, hardware, whatever). However, accessing a mapped network drive is typically much slower than accessing a local hard drive (please - no comments about USB sticks).