(file-exists-p) bug?

(file-exists-p) bug?

[Doug Lewan]

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. 

(file-exists-p "/cygdrive/q/file/of/interest/.dir-locals.el")
=> 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")
=> 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.

Re: (file-exists-p) bug?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:51:39 +0000
> 
> 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. 
> 
> (file-exists-p "/cygdrive/q/file/of/interest/.dir-locals.el")
> => 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:

Does this happen with filesystems other than the NFS-mounted one?

FWIW, I don't see this neither on GNU/Linux nor with the native w32
build of Emacs 24.3 on MS-Windows.

RE: (file-exists-p) bug?

[Doug Lewan]

Nope. Only with the OpenText NFS mounted disks. I have only native NTFS and remote NTFS and OT NFS mounts; only the OT NFS mounts show this symptom.

,Doug
Douglas Lewan
Shubert Ticketing
(201) 489-8600 ext 224

Hazmat condition: There's some emacs on the floor.


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> Subject: Re: (file-exists-p) bug?
> 
> > From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
> > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:51:39 +0000
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > (file-exists-p "/cygdrive/q/file/of/interest/.dir-locals.el")
> > => 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:
> 
> Does this happen with filesystems other than the NFS-mounted one?
> 
> FWIW, I don't see this neither on GNU/Linux nor with the native w32
> build of Emacs 24.3 on MS-Windows.