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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: kzeitler@lucent.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:15:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1slxiaelg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufytn364b.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:57:08 +0300")

> There's no need to run any program just to know if a directory is
> empty.  Emacs has primitives which will tell that directly (e.g.,
> file-attributes) and do that faster.

If directory-files blocks (on a failed NFS server), file-attributes is
pretty likely to block just as well, in which case `ls' may be a good way to
do the equivalent of running directory-files asynchronously.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-09 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-05  9:03 Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler Klaus Zeitler
2005-08-05 20:38 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-06  6:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-07 17:15     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-07 18:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-08  8:44         ` Johan Vromans
2005-08-08 14:32           ` Johan Vromans
2005-08-09  0:27         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-14 20:13           ` Sascha Wilde
2005-08-15 16:04             ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-09 23:15     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-08-09 23:07   ` Stefan Monnier

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