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Re: A few Windows build fixes
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: A few Windows build fixes |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:49:52 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > It doesn't matter who and how runs "mount -m". The results of that
>> > should be used on the C level. Otherwise, the result will be
>> I don't think so: we only want to convert cygwin file names when they
>> "enter" Emacs and everything else (e.g. all primitives that access
>> files) should not know about them.
> You cannot possibly hope to plug all the holes this way. A file name
> can "enter" Emacs in any number of ways, including as a substring of
> some string or buffer. Trying to catch all those loopholes is never
> going to work reliably.
We have no chance to plug all hole reliably anyway. The closest to
"handle it everywhere" already exists, it's called cygwin-mount.el.
There's no point re-inventing it. Instead we want something that's less
intrusive, even though it will miss a few more cases (but by being less
intrusive it can work better in the cases where it does work).
Stefan
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, (continued)
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Andy Moreton, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Jason Rumney, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Hannu Koivisto, 2011/09/08
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/08
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Hannu Koivisto, 2011/09/08