From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: attribute warn_unused_result
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:26:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834o8gua6e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4F0077.2090705@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:11:35 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 02/06/2011 11:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I actually question the resulting behavior on Posix platforms: AFAIU,
> > Emacs will (almost silently) do nothing. Is that a good UI? Should
> > we perhaps signal an error instead?
>
> Emacs can't merely signal an error there, since it's in the child.
It can if we decide that it's TRT.
> My recent change causes Emacs to report chdir failure the same way
> it reports execlp failure. If the former behavior isn't right,
> the latter isn't either; and I expect that the latter behavior has
> been there for decades.
I guess the probability of chdir to fail is not very high.
> For modern mainstream platforms the issue doesn't come up, as
> this code is exercised only on weird POSIXish platforms that
> can't suspend Emacs. I last used a platform like that in
> the 1980s, and I expect they're very low priority now.
If there are no such platforms, perhaps all that function should
become DOS_NT only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-06 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 14:57 attribute warn_unused_result Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-03 19:33 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-03 20:42 ` Chad Brown
2011-02-03 21:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 21:58 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-04 0:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 16:30 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-03 21:40 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-04 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 8:51 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-04 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-05 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 21:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-04 21:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-05 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 22:08 ` Andy Moreton
2011-02-03 23:00 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-03 21:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 0:57 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-04 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 15:50 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-04 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 17:12 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-05 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-05 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <yyxvd0yxwv1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2011-02-06 1:34 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 7:04 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 10:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 18:58 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 20:11 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 21:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-02-04 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-05 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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