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bug#19701: 24.3; directory-files platform-dependent behaviour when direc
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19701: 24.3; directory-files platform-dependent behaviour when directory doesn't exist |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:07:00 +0200 |
> From: VIDA Gábor <vidagabor@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:55:35 +0100
>
> On Linux when I specify a non-existing directory to directory-files, it
> signals an
> error:
>
> (directory-files "abcd")
> eval: Opening directory: no such file or directory, /home/evidgbo/tmp/abcd
>
> But on Windows, it returns nil:
>
> (directory-files "abcd")
> => nil
That is correct.
> I think they should work tha same way regardless of the underlying
> system, and it ends up in a Gnus error, what I will report
> separately once I understand that problem better.
The Windows implementation of directory-files always worked like that;
I looked as far back as Emacs 21.4. (Technically, this happened
because the Windows implementation of 'opendir' doesn't actually open
the directory, so it doesn't know.)
This was never a problem, though. What exactly does Gnus do that this
subtlety gets in the way?
In any case, I fixed this in commit 9664def on the emacs-24 branch.
Thanks.