From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-do-touch Date: 24 Mar 2004 13:22:20 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040321165848.0DB3C662F8@imf.math.ku.dk> <405DDAF3.2080608@math.ku.dk> <87vfkwbg51.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <877jxbqlp8.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080127573 24446 80.91.224.253 (24 Mar 2004 11:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: matt@mundell.ukfsn.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 24 12:26:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B66WK-0007qy-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:26:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B66WK-0002Kd-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:26:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B66VH-0001hY-OD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B66Uc-0001HA-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:24:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B66TH-0000UL-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:23:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B66T9-0000NZ-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 36977 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2004 11:22:39 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 24 Mar 2004 11:22:39 -0000 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:20848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20848 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > I think that this is acceptable behaviour on such systems. > > What is? to signal an error? Ups -- no, that's not what I meant. Let me try again: > else more-or-less silently ignore errors in this function for > directories on such systems. I think that this is acceptable behaviour on such systems. > > Maybe the function could simply return t if time was modified, nil > > otherwise. Then it would be easier for a programmer to change his > > code to deal with systems where the call fails. > > Yes, a good idea, IMHO. So let's do it that way. Matt? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk