From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Willing to debug bug #3542 (23.0.94; File access via UNC path slow again under Windows) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:03:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83ljmrqbg3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7dbe73ed0907051401o26903ca3t9a67060f3a3417ad@mail.gmail.com> <83fxda1pef.fsf@gnu.org> <7dbe73ed0907060038w53699f77ie742996955ae8118@mail.gmail.com> <838wj11sz4.fsf@gnu.org> <83my7fz09s.fsf@gnu.org> <7dbe73ed0907081347q12dfd1a2lbbff915c49362f75@mail.gmail.com> <4A55D68D.8050407@gnu.org> <7dbe73ed0907090453s3e125b4ar142b90a268b105e2@mail.gmail.com> <7DAFC004A33C486A9E29A59689E7F02E@us.oracle.com> <4A5619F5.8010008@gnu.org> <8363e1zoak.fsf@gnu.org> <83hbxjrmue.fsf@gnu.org> <83ws6cqudb.fsf@gnu.org> <83tz1gqr33.fsf@gnu.org> <83prc4q7ef.fsf@gnu.org> <83ocrnqdqa.fsf@gnu.org> <58260.130.55.118.19.1247599938.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247601867 22609 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 20:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 22:04:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQoET-00064m-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:04:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37367 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQoES-0006kH-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQoEM-0006jq-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQoEL-0006jM-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56814 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQoEL-0006jH-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:9762) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQoEI-0002Cu-TI; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:03:59 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KMS00M00FIDMO00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:03:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.207.26]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KMS0022RFPNN0B0@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:03:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <58260.130.55.118.19.1247599938.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112468 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:32:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Davis Herring" > Cc: "Miles Bader" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > That's not what I meant. What I meant is the problem that could > > happen if encoded_dir's value was foo^@bar, and there was also a > > directory called "foo". Won't we then opendir "foo"? > > Of course. But is the equivalence between "foo" and "foo^@bar" > fundamentally worse than the (almost: consider symlinks) equivalence > between "foo" and "foo/"? Yes, it is (IMO): directory "foo^@bar" does not exist, so you should have got an error. Instead, you silently open a directory by another name, as if "foo^@bar" existed.