From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:24:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sxsk7r59dqz.fsf@florida.arsdigita.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020418193459.8613J-100000@is> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:39:35 +0300 (IDT)")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> But I have one question left: should the `file-directory-p' check be enforced
>> independently from `predicate' ?
>> I.e. can (locate-file f p s 'file-readable-p) return a directory ?
>
> My vote is for NO, for a couple of reasons:
>
> - it is rare for a program to want to find files and directories alike,
> so using file-directory-p is not a nuisance, in practice;
>
> - different filesystems impose different limitations on what system
> calls work on directories (for example, some won't let you `read' a
> directory), so the application will have to filter non-files anyway.
>
> Of course, compatibility considerations could render these reasons less
> important.
Fortunately, compatibility agrees with your reasoning, and so do I.
Note that XEmacs's internal locate_file() is based on what was once
openp(). So the similarities are not completely coincidental.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-18 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-17 5:05 locate-file in Emacs Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 8:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 9:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 9:47 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 10:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 13:16 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 13:54 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:09 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 14:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 15:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 16:20 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-25 12:12 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-25 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 15:58 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205061655.g46Gt3K01382@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 19:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205062052.g46KqwO02482@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 20:59 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-06 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 21:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-07 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-18 16:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
2002-04-19 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 15:31 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:49 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:54 ` Miles Bader
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