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From: "Conrad Scott" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com>
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Subject: Re: The road to 1.3.11 -- please try the latest snapshot
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 03:33:02 +0100
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"Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> >"Conrad Scott" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com> wrote
> >Okay: red face time: dired is broken in xemacs 21.5-b6 for *everything*,
> >and so it's *nothing* to do with /proc. The other problem about all the
files
> >opening as empty might be an issue but I'm busy building a more stable
> >version of XEmacs to test it.
> >
> >Sorry for the false alert.
>
> Don't worry about it.  I looked into this and found some problems with
> the stat() code for virtual devices (cygdrive, proc), so, even if this
> doesn't pan out, there was benefit.

I'm glad that I didn't waste your time.

I've now got a copy of XEmacs 21.4.8 (a reasonably stable version) compiled
under cygwin and I'm getting strange results in /proc that are confusing me
(it must be time for bed).

One thing that seems reasonably clear (and maybe you've just fixed this), is
that XEmacs seems to think that any non-existent file inside the /proc/<pid>
directories is itself a directory. (How it can think that of a non-existent
file I don't know.) So opening /proc/<pid>/foo gives dired error messages
from XEmacs, i.e. it thinks that foo is a directory.

Anyhow, definitely time for bed, so goodnight everyone (wherever the sun may
be for you).

// Conrad



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