From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 6397@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6397: 24.0.50; `make-directory' return value
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:12:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5keuhrk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4EAEC98DA7485299F2D80D33002278@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:49:23 -0700")
> The doc for `make-directory' doesn't mention its return value, and the
> code doesn't seem to do anything special about it.
There is also a related bug#6363.
> I think it should return non-nil (e.g. the directory name) if the
> creation succeeds and nil if it fails without error. And that should be
> documented. Or if it always raises an error when it does not create a
> directory, that's OK too, but that should then be documented.
What should it return when the creation of some parents succeeds,
and fails for the rest?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-11 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 20:49 bug#6397: 24.0.50; `make-directory' return value Drew Adams
2010-06-11 8:12 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-06-11 13:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-13 22:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-13 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-13 23:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-13 23:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-13 23:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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