From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:22:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877igvl4dn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203805376 25216 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2008 22:22:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 23 23:23:21 2008 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 1JT2m0-0003Br-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:23:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JT2lU-0003NK-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:22:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JT2lO-0003IT-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:22:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JT2lN-0003El-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:22:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JT2lN-0003EU-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:22:33 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JT2lM-0007CP-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:22:33 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-200-132.inter.net.il [84.229.200.132]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FBK77991 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:22:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <877igvl4dn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:00:52 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:90166 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:00:52 -0500 > > Does anyone here have a vfat/ntfs partition for investigating this bug? There's no need to investigate, as the problem is clearly evident: Windows-based filesystems don't allow certain characters in file names, and `*' is one of these characters. So a file name such as `#*scratch*#20913s5z#' is not allowed. To properly fix such a problem, Emacs needs to know the type of filesystem of a file. Then we could employ the same technique as the Windows port does now, but conditioned by the filesystem, not the OS. However, I don't think we have infrastructure for querying the file about its filesystem type, do we?