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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	Emacs Development Discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:25:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpqial35y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN4ruPhVcMJ47a4eOZOMVDdo=J+g0cJxD7fx=ePrQVUBO24cxw@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Olson's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:27:56 -0700")

> 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,


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-06 12:25 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 [this message]
2011-10-06 13:18                 ` Michael Albinus
2011-10-06 13:25                   ` Eli Zaretskii
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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