From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Lewan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: (file-exists-p) bug? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:51:39 +0000 Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9892B12BEA@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407955938 4658 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2014 18:52:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:52:18 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 20:52:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XHdeZ-0004ck-7u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:52:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHdeY-0001sr-Ug for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52293) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHdeF-0001q7-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:51:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHde8-0008En-Vp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:51:47 -0400 Original-Received: from webmail.shubertorg.com ([207.246.209.200]:33957) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHde8-0008Ee-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from dakiya1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) by DAKIYA1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) with mapi id 14.02.0247.003; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:51:40 -0400 Thread-Topic: (file-exists-p) bug? Thread-Index: Ac+3J50qzQfhY2xRQO2P2idH7IgXzw== Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.21.202] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 207.246.209.200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99192 Archived-At: I'm running emacs 24.3 (2013-08-20 build date) on CYGWIN 64 bit. There are= file systems mounted with OpenText NFS client from an AIX box.=20 (file-exists-p "/cygdrive/q/file/of/interest/.dir-locals.el") =3D> t where the /cygdrive/q/file/of/interest is a regular file. The same does not happen with files of interest that do not exist: (file-exists-p "/cygdrive/q/bobtcat") =3D> nil I've looked through the help-gnu-emacs and bugs-gnu-emacs archives and (in = the first 5 or so pages) don't find anything like this. It seems like a bug= , but I always assume that I'm doing something wrong first. Does anyone know what I might be doing (have configured) wrong? Thanks. ,Doug Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 Hazmat condition: There's some emacs on the floor.