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: A few Windows build fixes Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:47:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83obz2uc11.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vcth40ik.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <83r5444ome.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <87pqjmfgia.fsf@gmail.com> <8739ggf8ph.fsf@gmail.com> <8262lbu7g5.fsf@gmail.com> <83y5y7cthv.fsf@gnu.org> <83ty8vt4y8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314982069 29830 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2011 16:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 02 18:47:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QzWu6-0005G6-8S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:47:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzWu5-0000fL-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzWu2-0000ej-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzWu1-0000bC-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:47:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:48374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QzWu1-0000am-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:47:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LQW00500M0Y3900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:47:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.83.44]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LQW0056RMMW3740@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:47:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143727 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Andy Moreton , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:48:42 -0400 > > > It doesn't matter who and how runs "mount -m". The results of that > > should be used on the C level. Otherwise, the result will be > > I don't think so: we only want to convert cygwin file names when they > "enter" Emacs and everything else (e.g. all primitives that access > files) should not know about them. You cannot possibly hope to plug all the holes this way. A file name can "enter" Emacs in any number of ways, including as a substring of some string or buffer. Trying to catch all those loopholes is never going to work reliably.