From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Behavior of directory-files on Windows
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:03:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d3c7c8x2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871usnw8rr.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:46:48 +0100
>
> I think adding both c:/. and c:/.. to listing of directory-files doesn't
> arm.
> It's what I did here (in anything) and it is nice feature IMO.
> On GNU/Linux, having "." and ".." in (directory-files "/") is not a
> problem.
>
> Do you think this can create problems in some places?
It won't create problems if done thoroughly: you need to invent all of
the file-attributes for these fake entries, including such obscure
ones as number of links etc. And you need to handle the cases where
there are real directory entries by those names, so as not to clobber
accurate information.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-02 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 12:54 Behavior of directory-files on Windows Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 14:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-01 15:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 15:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-01 15:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 15:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-01 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-01 17:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-01 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-01 17:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-02 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-02 10:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-12-02 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-12-02 15:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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