From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:20 +0200 Message-ID: <85odj3ahvr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <86wsxxvief.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182803996 25660 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 20:39:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 22:39:55 2007 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 1I2vLm-00030w-Hm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vLm-0007Cy-2m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vLP-0006xi-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:39:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vLN-0006wm-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vLN-0006wd-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2vLL-0003pu-AW; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52401E53C3; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2E8213031; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-061-159.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.61.159]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FBC1FB795; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 22C7A1D03440; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:20 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon\, 25 Jun 2007 23\:35\:34 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/3523/Mon Jun 25 16:30:33 2007 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: 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:73856 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:27:30 +0200 >> From: "Juanma Barranquero" >> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Also, in MS-DOS, there was some trickery to simulate that directories >> were files, but you couldn't, for example, get the size of one, or >> directly write onto it as a file. > > Directories _are_ files on MSDOS, they are just special files, in that > some file I/O functions fail for them. I seem to remember that the root directory on a disk is not a file. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum