From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.50 grep.el/executable.el problems Date: 16 Feb 2004 15:16:01 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <6408-Mon16Feb2004215712+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076962631 1237 80.91.224.253 (16 Feb 2004 20:17:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:17:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rost@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 16 21:17:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AspAw-00084i-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:17:06 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AspAw-0005MS-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:17:06 +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 1AspAn-0003NW-DE for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:16:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AspAX-0003Lc-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:16:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Asp9z-0002zx-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Asp9y-0002ys-U4; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36E52139F; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:16:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D3A078C793; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:16:01 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <6408-Mon16Feb2004215712+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.9, requis 5, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19994 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:2140 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19994 > In my experience, on a Windows system this problem is pretty frequent, > and when it happens, the error message that comes from the non-Posix > `find' is so cryptic that even occasional gurus get confused. Is it possible for Emacs to recognize this cryptic thing? Maybe we could give a meaningful message after running `find' rather than before. Is MS-find the only real source of problem? If so, is its absolute file name always the same? Stefan