From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:25:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mxdf3z8u.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <0jty7nnl1f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5bvcs3kq0m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317903921 18637 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 12:25:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 12:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Emacs Development Discussions To: Michael Olson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 14:25:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBn0n-00047j-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:25:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBn0m-0003jN-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBn0k-0003j7-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBn0i-0001Se-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:21442 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBn0i-0001SZ-Pp; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:25:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgwKAFidjU7O+JxS/2dsb2JhbABEmQ2PIIEGgVMBAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiBG3FYcsBKEMhEQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,495,1312171200"; d="scan'208";a="140137619" Original-Received: from 206-248-156-82.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.156.82]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Oct 2011 08:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EF4AD592D4; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:25:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Michael Olson's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:27:56 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144607 Archived-At: > 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