From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, mwolson@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:25:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RBnxV-0005Zn-Gr@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjn68dhv.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:18:36 +0200)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:18:36 +0200
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>,
> Emacs Development Discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> >> Nuts, I thought (file-remote-p '/some/nfs/mount') would return
> >> non-nil, but it doesn't.
> >
> > The concept of "remote" file is a very fuzzy one, which means very
> > different things to different people in different cases.
> > I tend to agree that file-remote-p should return non-nil on NFS mounted
> > filesystems, but that's simply not implemented. Patch welcome,
>
> This will break Tramp completely. Please don't change its current behaviour.
I was going to say precisely that, but Michael beat me to it.
I think past discussions of this particular calamity concluded that we
need a separate API for this, something like filesystem-mounted-p.
The uses of each API are expected to be very different.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-05 18:50 Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL Michael Olson
2011-10-05 21:27 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-05 21:59 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-05 22:14 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-05 22:34 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-05 22:55 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-05 23:14 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-05 23:27 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-05 23:31 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-06 12:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 13:18 ` Michael Albinus
2011-10-06 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-06 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 17:58 ` Michael Albinus
2011-10-06 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-07 11:43 ` Michael Albinus
2011-10-07 13:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 18:45 ` Michael Olson
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