From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 00b8c7e: Make ls-lisp.el behave like Posix hosts when directory doesn't exist
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:51:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8d5can6.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o97dm53f.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:41:40 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Hi Eli,
>> > + ;; Emulate what we do on Posix hosts when we call access-file
>> > + ;; in insert-directory.
>> > + (signal 'file-error
>> > + (list "Reading directory"
>> > + "Directory doesn't exist or is inaccessible"
>> > + file))))))
>>
>> On GNU/Linux, it is `file-missing' (introduced in Emacs 26).
>
> I know. But ls-lisp doesn't know whether it failed because the
> directory doesn't exist, or does exist but isn't accessible, and
> trying to discern between these two situations doesn't seem worth it.
Hmm. This reminds me, that `tramp-test17-insert-directory' does not
check any error condition. If I would add this, this subtle detail would
count ...
(Not that anybody in real life would care ...)
Best regards, Michael.
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2019-02-15 14:10 ` master 00b8c7e: Make ls-lisp.el behave like Posix hosts when directory doesn't exist Michael Albinus
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