From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: verify-visited-file-modtime Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:43:36 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200407190140.i6J1eaS29120@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090356294 24147 80.91.224.253 (20 Jul 2004 20:44:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 20 22:44:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bn1TS-0003NC-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:44:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bn1WC-0006BI-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:47:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bn1W1-00068K-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bn1Vz-00067i-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bn1Vz-000674-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bn1Sc-0001zx-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Bn1Sa-0005HW-D0; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:43:36 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200407190140.i6J1eaS29120@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:40:36 -0500 (CDT)) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25854 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25854 If the buffer has stored (via the value -1) that the file does not exist and the file does not exist on disk either, then the buffer's record agrees with the actual situation on disk. I do not know which "untame" errors one had in mind here where `verify-visited-file-modtime' should return nil in this situation. The idea is that tame errors in this context mean that the name doesn't exist, where as the other errors (not tame) indicate difficulty in finding out whether the name exists.