Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler

[Stefan Monnier]

> There's no need to run any program just to know if a directory is
> empty.  Emacs has primitives which will tell that directly (e.g.,
> file-attributes) and do that faster.

If directory-files blocks (on a failed NFS server), file-attributes is
pretty likely to block just as well, in which case `ls' may be a good way to
do the equivalent of running directory-files asynchronously.


        Stefan