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Re: autorevert.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: autorevert.el |
Date: |
25 Mar 2004 09:21:55 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:20:20 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
>
> 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.
- Re: autorevert.el, (continued)
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/23
- Re: autorevert.el, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/23
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/23
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/24
- Re: autorevert.el, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/24
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/25
- Re: autorevert.el, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/25
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/24
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/25
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/25
- Re: autorevert.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/22
- Re: autorevert.el, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/22
- Re: autorevert.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/22
- Re: autorevert.el, Richard Stallman, 2004/03/21
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/16
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/08
- Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/08
Re: autorevert.el, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/03/06