From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:27:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86wsxxvief.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182796088 27378 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 18:28:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stefan Monnier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 20:28:05 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 1I2tIC-0007BW-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:28:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2tIC-00008O-As for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2tHh-0008Ah-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:27:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2tHf-0008A3-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:27:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2tHf-00089y-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2tHf-00016S-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h26so1583858wxd for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:27:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kOqbYh7DTp7xG7YMZ5U0VaSQ4xNfZf8cJFNSsuNbyPptKM+rzlLBe4RzsAQGQGgU1UinqWiHh+lChWbTnhQpbKBJJ0jVO2xVlzFPNCUVStkSJqu2dMyOnNPrGbJG9JhWjrPJNsvvyFXKmSlCDKHrpWHodnodeJ5xWfjFywnRE6Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=flh0IUdI0MqQMOmeTAO644R0hlOt/xrmQYY/ERmtWXwVhFV2NTDmRWoAz51THFCsr7MCIIpdcgBpWFjVxfEIAFmvSmoQEQiQosimoNrS5eAEpIKJ0Lqjhz+8WPL6WZwvjk0xlnTD2osiuzSS8IqA8DhWDi+3rVLx1VtB6aRvy8c= Original-Received: by 10.90.54.4 with SMTP id c4mr4597195aga.1182796050541; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.8 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:27:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:73844 Archived-At: On 6/25/07, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Not everything is a file. But a directory is a file on all OSes I know that > includes VMS). I must be misremembering VMS. Neither at the command prompt nor in the programming API were directories treated as files IIRC. 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. At least that's what I remember of some distant past. Juanma