From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autorevert.el Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:44:46 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200403220244.i2M2ikR07506@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200403022319.i22NJbG01259@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403040508.i2458W811551@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403050400.i2540VQ21715@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403130310.i2D3A8w28676@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403150008.i2F083x04382@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200403160456.i2G4uVL14097@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2427-Tue16Mar2004214034+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <8011-Fri19Mar2004164602+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200403210326.i2L3QpF29260@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079923752 2394 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 02:49:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 03:49:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5FUt-0005mo-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:49:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5FUt-0005IC-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:49:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5FTm-0007vw-RD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5FTi-0007uM-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:47:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5FTC-0007p2-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:47:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5FSf-0007S6-Hv; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:46:45 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2M2kXKt015054; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:46:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i2M2ikR07506; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:44:46 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: eliz@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 21 Mar 2004 08:46:22 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20698 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20698 Eli Zaretskii wrote: How about checking the directory size as well? That could work for MS filesystems as well, if `stat' does a good job of reporting the directory size (in the MS-DOS port, it does). You mean (nth 7 (file-attributes dirname))? (Corresponds to st_size.) Somehow does not seem to work (on GNU/Linux). It returns 4096 for all empty to medium size directories. In other words, it is useless for our purposes. Sincerely, Luc.