From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Behavior of directory-files on Windows
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:20:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r50o439k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SQQw3FDzjiTy6i9UL4gbsh-Z7Ot-bEaQy+8qYBp07EFpg@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 15:39:41 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 13:54, Thierry Volpiatto
> <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If I do:
> > (directory-files "c:/")
> > The "c:/." and "c:/.." candidates are omitted
>
> Assuming C:/ is really the root of your Windows' installation drive,
> it does not have the . and .. entries (try doing "dir /a:" in C:\ and
> in a subdirectory). So they are not omitted, they just are not there.
Right. DJGPP, the development environment used to build the DOS port
of Emacs, actually _invents_ these two entries in the root of each
drive, to avoid the unpleasant surprises like the one Thierry just
hit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 12:54 Behavior of directory-files on Windows Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 14:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-01 15:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 15:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-01 15:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 15:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-01 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-01 17:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-12-01 17:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-02 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-02 10:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-02 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-02 15:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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