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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.

  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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