From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tramp,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ls-lisp and remote files Date: 06 Nov 2003 08:37:34 -0500 Sender: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@nongnu.org Message-ID: References: <3FA16F54.80201@math.ku.dk> <873cd2h4vc.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068126415 21426 80.91.224.253 (6 Nov 2003 13:46:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Hansen , tramp-devel@nongnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@nongnu.org Thu Nov 06 14:46:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHkTM-0002Dj-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:46:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHkTL-0004Lg-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:46:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHkTH-0000UI-DI for tramp@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:46:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AHkLz-00060S-SW for tramp-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:39:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AHkLT-0005kZ-H3 for tramp-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:39:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHkKk-0005C3-UE for tramp-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA6DbYbj007278; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 08:37:37 -0500 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 704B53C63E; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 08:37:34 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: <873cd2h4vc.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> Original-Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: tramp-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@nongnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tramp:1400 gmane.emacs.devel:17707 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17707 > I also remember that I looked in the whole Emacs source tree (Lisp > part only, though) to see if the numerical id is ever actually used. > It turned out that what the code really wants is the user name. That's what I remember as well. I think we should simply switch to user-names, but if compatibility is a problem, we can just provide an additional argument to select between the two behaviors. Stefan