From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 6397@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6397: 24.0.50; `make-directory' return value
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:33:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <148DE0D4282044199ACF3A1E4433FDED@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5keuhrk.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> > The doc for `make-directory' doesn't mention its return
> > value, and the code doesn't seem to do anything special
> > about it.
>
> There is also a related bug#6363.
>
> > I think it should return non-nil (e.g. the directory name) if the
> > creation succeeds and nil if it fails without error. And
> > should be documented. Or if it always raises an error when it
> > does not create a directory, that's OK too, but that should then
> > be documented.
>
> What should it return when the creation of some parents succeeds,
> and fails for the rest?
Why do we let that happen? That seems like a bug. Is there some use case for
that? If not, can we fix it, to make the creation all-or-nothing (e.g. delete
any created unless all are)?
If the aim of the function is to create directory /a/lot/of/parents/foo, then
what sense does it make to create only some of the parents?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-11 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 20:49 bug#6397: 24.0.50; `make-directory' return value Drew Adams
2010-06-11 8:12 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-11 13:33 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-07-13 22:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-13 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-13 23:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-13 23:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-13 23:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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