From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MIYASHITA Hisashi(=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNVwyPBsoQiAbJEI+MBsoQjpISU1J?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: init_buffer PWD fix Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:38:41 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019646029 31957 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2002 11:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org, knagano@sodan.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 170KVh-0008JK-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:00:29 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 170KXL-0008Gm-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:02:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170KVa-0002yt-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from meadow.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp ([130.54.54.165]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170KAe-0001k4-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:38:45 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 22705 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 10:37:58 -0000 Original-Received: from meadow.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp (HELO MILCH.meadowy.org.meadowy.org) (root@130.54.54.165) by meadow.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 10:37:58 -0000 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:12:44 +0300 (IDT)") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: T-gnus/6.15.4 (based on Oort Gnus v0.04) (revision 11) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Meadow/1.99 Alpha1 (AWOFUCHI) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3173 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3173 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Windows dose not have symbolic link and if the current directory >> permission dose not allow to enter, we cannot invoke any programs. > > True for now. But suppose we introduce into Emacs support for > Cygwin-style symlinks some day--are we supposed to go through all the > primitives and invent Windows-specific code to handle that? Hmm... Sorry, I might partly misread this passage. Would you like to set the default directory that is not compatible with Windows API? If it's correct, what I said in the previous mail is not correct because SetCurrentDirectory() would fail. But, in this situation(to support Cygwin Symlink), do we have to simply port Emacs to Cygwin API complient? I doubt that it's useful... With regards, from himi