From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85odj3ahvr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uir9bojqh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon\, 25 Jun 2007 23\:35\:34 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:27:30 +0200
>> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
>> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Also, in MS-DOS, there was some trickery to simulate that directories
>> were files, but you couldn't, for example, get the size of one, or
>> directly write onto it as a file.
>
> Directories _are_ files on MSDOS, they are just special files, in that
> some file I/O functions fail for them.
I seem to remember that the root directory on a disk is not a file.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-25 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 16:22 Don't concat directories to file names Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 15:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 17:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-14 21:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 1:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 9:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 10:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 11:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 14:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 16:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 18:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-15 16:39 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-15 16:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 0:38 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-16 0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-16 3:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 22:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 23:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 19:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 20:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-17 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-18 7:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20 13:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 13:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-20 14:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-20 14:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 8:08 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-06-21 8:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 1:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 9:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 14:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 15:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 18:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 18:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-26 0:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-25 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 19:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-25 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 20:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-25 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 15:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 2:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-21 8:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-21 8:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 5:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 16:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:51 ` Tom Tromey
2007-06-14 21:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-14 21:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-15 7:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:40 ` Tom Tromey
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