From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:33:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83vcufaaqf.fsf@gnu.org> <83hb5vvwdp.fsf@gnu.org> <834o1t19hg.fsf@gnu.org> <83vcu9yn6h.fsf@gnu.org> <83obzzzpf8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312935690 27012 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2011 00:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 10 02:21:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwY1-0001jF-3M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:21:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwY0-0007Vc-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:21:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwXr-00077p-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwXl-0007SU-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:8738 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwXf-0007Mj-B4; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:21:03 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjoFAJnOQU5FxKeo/2dsb2JhbABAJqcZeIFAAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiAC4eIZGBJ9chDM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,347,1309752000"; d="scan'208";a="130360305" Original-Received: from 69-196-167-168.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.167.168]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Aug 2011 20:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D78D16616E; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:33:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:19:50 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143081 Archived-At: > So I would suggest a single API, not 2. If some Lisp program wants to > drill down to the hard/symbolic link level, there are already APIs to > do that. I'm not suggesting two APIs. I'm just pointing out the different possibilities and the need for the function we want to define to be clear about what are its semantics. Stefan