From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:05:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ipxaidea.fsf@gmail.com> <87k4hp96g0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vy59ejz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296234754 1954 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 17:12:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:12:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Michael Albinus , Stefan Monnier , Thierry Volpiatto To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 18:12:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pirs4-0005pu-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:12:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pirs3-0003P6-VT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:12:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54191 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pirlh-0000gU-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:05:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PirlS-0006w1-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:05:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:51096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PirlS-0006ul-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:05:38 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4CA1853B90; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:05:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0071B1C00126; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:05:31 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id adAMH8S+ndTO; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:05:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hase (ppp-88-217-127-238.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.127.238]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:05:30 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Yow! And then we could sit on the hoods of cars at stop lights! In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:51:00 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 212.18.0.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135159 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > I really dislike this kind of context specific semantics that is both > unintuitive and undescribed. Except that it's long-standing tradition and specified by POSIX. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."