From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 00b8c7e: Make ls-lisp.el behave like Posix hosts when directory doesn't exist
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:41:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o97dm53f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg2hcfc8.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:10:31 +0100)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:10:31 +0100
>
> > + ;; Emulate what we do on Posix hosts when we call access-file
> > + ;; in insert-directory.
> > + (signal 'file-error
> > + (list "Reading directory"
> > + "Directory doesn't exist or is inaccessible"
> > + file))))))
>
> On GNU/Linux, it is `file-missing' (introduced in Emacs 26).
I know. But ls-lisp doesn't know whether it failed because the
directory doesn't exist, or does exist but isn't accessible, and
trying to discern between these two situations doesn't seem worth it.
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2019-02-15 14:10 ` master 00b8c7e: Make ls-lisp.el behave like Posix hosts when directory doesn't exist Michael Albinus
2019-02-15 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-15 15:51 ` Michael Albinus
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