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bug#9139: 24.0.50; Inappropriate warning: "File no longer exists!"
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#9139: 24.0.50; Inappropriate warning: "File no longer exists!" |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:49:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> (visited-file-modtime)
>> => (-1 65535)
>>
>> in foo.txt. But is that a bug?
>
> No. -1 as the modtime exactly means that the file does not exist. So
> at most we need to update the doc string, assuming that we want to
> reveal such implementation details.
I've now updated the doc string. It seems like a non-optimal return
value for this situation (nil might make more sense), though, but
changing that might break stuff, I guess.
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