From: Lars Hansen <larsh@math.ku.dk>
Subject: stat fail
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:33:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FCBC1B9.4050706@math.ku.dk> (raw)
When I mount a SMB file system on directory foo, unplug the network and
then call the C function stat (or lstat) on foo, the function returns -1
and sets errno to 5 (Input/output error). This is on a GNU/Linux system.
The results for Emacs are (among other?):
1. file-attributes may return nil although the file exists.
2. directory-files-and-attributes may return names with no attributes.
3. file-exists-p may return nil although the file exists.
I don't know if the behavior of stat is a bug or not, but even if it is,
maybe Emacs ought to be able to handle stat failing on an existing file.
Cases 1 and 2 may be fixed by a doc change, and problem 3 may be fixed
by using the C function access rather than stat.
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