From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com,
10733@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10733: 24.0.93; w32 file truncation
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:09:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pqdrbrdx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwend82j.fsf@gnus.org>
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: <eliz@gnu.org>, ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, 10733@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:24:04 +0100
>
> "Ota, Takaaki" <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> writes:
>
> > where "memo" is the NTFS symlink and "memo.old" is a real file. I
> > don't know how the size 0 on symlink side is translated into 64K.
>
> If Emacs doesn't know the size of the file (i.e., the fs says that the
> file is 0 bytes long), then Emacs will only read the first 64K of the
> file. This was discussed in the bug report about how /proc files are
> truncated by Emacs.
>
> The fix proposed there (i.e., "read until you get to eof") would
> probably fix this, too.
That's a band-aid at best. If Emacs doesn't know the size of the file
that is the target of the symlink and its other attributes, other
places will break.
What is needed is to resolve the link, i.e. do the equivalent of
`lstat'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-06 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-05 22:34 bug#10733: 24.0.93; w32 file truncation Ota, Takaaki
2012-02-05 23:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-06 0:16 ` Ota, Takaaki
2012-02-06 4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 5:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-02-06 16:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-02-06 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 17:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-02-06 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 20:19 ` Ota, Takaaki
2012-02-06 20:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-06 21:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 21:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-06 21:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 21:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-06 20:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-06 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-02-06 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 23:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-02-06 23:43 ` Ota, Takaaki
2012-02-07 0:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-02-07 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-07 5:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-02-07 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-03 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 0:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
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