From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:08:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ipxaidea.fsf@gmail.com> <87k4hp96g0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vy59ejz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296234538 557 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 17:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Michael Albinus , Stefan Monnier , Thierry Volpiatto To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 18:08:53 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiroY-0003U3-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:08:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiroW-0001sx-C7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:08:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39070 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiroK-0001qK-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiroH-0007kV-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:08:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:35148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiroG-0007kP-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:08:32 -0500 Original-Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so1654588eyh.0 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:08:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=xq1CI3ppASkDV2qhUaDDaIMmEaPsLJZ+g09NW/CHQrI=; b=tPzXc/HJz4i0o5gTxGoEBe1c6mHkWDChvFKhbfJv98S056j+7NPc6SQS/A18hPUSCG WJLOXjOLOqZ2dDjdLqi+Bf0XhR4MNzza1hVpo0tbacsGWWaFkMtBowHxSKOXomY3rDWo uk27vYvLSq5dB8CFACmTI+ZOOPchEs+H/EHHY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=I+aq76x5TzowpkDqAfQB6HkBJUL4pXfUD7ENjF7+2czTy09kcnBnkuAE1+LvS9oUll lh6POn/qg14MsYTYibufq74qFONOdTPiiCu44sLkYonlOxRjL6GMBeY7YP9HhSfYamra 727q64obt+urQGZfRWzU8IT7igfkDhGY4Nwmg= Original-Received: by 10.213.29.77 with SMTP id p13mr5236887ebc.2.1296234511505; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:08:31 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.36.11 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:08:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:135157 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Lennart Borgman writes: > >> I really dislike this kind of context specific semantics that is both >> unintuitive and undescribed. > > Except that it's long-standing tradition and specified by POSIX. I am not very impressed that POSIX specified it this way ;-)