From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: autorevert.el
Date: 25 Mar 2004 09:21:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4qsdwfvw.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403250620.i2P6KKE12816@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:20:20 -0600 (CST))
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:20:20 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
>
> Note that apparently, stat is only supposed to return a well defined
> value for st_size for regular files and for symbolic links, not for
> directories.
The glibc manual keeps silence about directories, but in fact, at
least to the best of my knowledge, st_size does return the size of
the directory file on GNU/Linux and other Posix-compliant systems.
> You told me it returns a meaningful value on ms-dos.
The standard C library used to build Emacs on MS-DOS simply tries to
do its best to return some meaningful value for a directory's size.
> (In general, I'm opposed to planting into Emacs user-level features
> implicit assumptions about Posix-specific behavior, in this case, that
> a directory is just another file. Yes, I know: Emacs is being
> developed primarily for Posix-compliant platforms, bla, bla...)
>
> And I'm opposed to planting into Emacs user-level features implicit
> assumptions about MS-DOS-port-specific behavior
So am I; see my other message in this thread from a few minutes ago.
> I don't see how adding a call to file-attributes is a big deal that
> needs a call for volunteers,
>
> It is not. See the patch below.
Thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-25 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 23:19 autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-03 13:24 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-04 5:08 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-04 20:43 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-05 4:00 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-13 3:10 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-13 11:29 ` autorevert.el Kai Grossjohann
2004-03-14 23:15 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 0:08 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-15 2:58 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-15 7:04 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-16 4:56 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-16 19:40 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-19 4:48 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-19 6:06 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-21 2:42 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-23 15:26 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 4:20 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-24 4:25 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-21 4:19 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-19 10:19 ` autorevert.el Kim F. Storm
2004-03-19 14:46 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 3:26 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-21 6:46 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 2:44 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-22 6:51 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-22 19:39 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-23 19:40 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-23 20:09 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 4:10 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-24 6:58 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-24 18:03 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 6:56 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-25 17:01 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-24 18:56 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 6:20 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 6:49 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-25 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-03-22 19:47 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-22 16:23 ` autorevert.el Stefan Monnier
2004-03-23 4:24 ` autorevert.el Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-21 19:22 ` autorevert.el Richard Stallman
2004-03-16 5:06 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-05 4:25 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-05 5:55 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-04 5:34 ` autorevert.el Luc Teirlinck
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