From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: recentf-cleanup, file-readable-p & remote files Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:02:48 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <14940442.1063698697392.JavaMail.www@wwinf0603> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063822224 10642 80.91.224.253 (17 Sep 2003 18:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: harder@ifa.au.dk, david.ponce@wanadoo.fr, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 20:10:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19zgkv-0004n9-00 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:10:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19zgoa-0000UM-00 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:14:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19zgkC-0004zI-ID for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19zgjo-0004yJ-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19zgjk-0004wJ-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19zgjk-0004w4-My; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19zgdc-0005O8-Ci; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:02:48 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on 16 Sep 2003 16:58:25 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16448 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:1066 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16448 > IMO a better solution would be to allow to disable connection timeout > when calling the `file-readable-p' remote handler (I don't know if > this is feasible). So when not connected, `file-readable-p' will > immediately return nil, without waiting for a remote connection. It makes a lot of sense for `file-readable-p' to return nil for an unreachable file ... :-) Maybe this should just be handled by the appopriate remote file-handler. What is meant by "when not connected"? I don't understand it clearly.