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: Remove S_IFLNK Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:01:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8739nhji0d.fsf@gmail.com> <4D62C1A3.2050407@cs.ucla.edu> <834o7xt985.fsf@gnu.org> <4D631AC3.3010600@cs.ucla.edu> <4D638488.50101@cs.ucla.edu> <4D642E50.7080006@cs.ucla.edu> <4D681EF8.3080308@cs.ucla.edu> <83vd06oetf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298750528 10315 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2011 20:02:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 21:02:02 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtQL4-0004Hq-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:02:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtQL2-0000H8-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:02:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50445 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtQKp-0000FA-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtQKj-0004LP-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:55032 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtQKe-0004Ke-LS; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:01:36 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAMrqaE1FpZIs/2dsb2JhbACmRXW7HYVhBIUQjGiCdw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,232,1297054800"; d="scan'208";a="93668772" Original-Received: from 69-165-146-44.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.146.44]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 26 Feb 2011 15:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 92804660D6; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:01:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83vd06oetf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:01:32 +0200") 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: 206.248.154.181 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:136562 Archived-At: > I'd say if we didn't hear about these problems until now, they are not > important enough to justify such heavyweight changes and added > complexity with remapping functions, replacing them, etc. > However, if Stefan and Chong are okay with this, so be it. I don't care much either way. To me this seems like it's trying to fix something nobody cares about, but at the same time, the author of the patch obviously cares enough about it to come up with a patch, so... If the resulting code is cleaner and/or more efficient, I guess it's good, but I'm not sure that it is. Stefan