Re: empty-directory predicate, native implementation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:44:18 +0200
> 
> > As a bonus, we will be able to return the file names we read, not just
> > ignore them.
> 
> I agree with your proposal. However, I don't see why it is a bonus to
> know which file names have read already, because they are taken in
> random order.

The order depends on the filesystem.  For example, MS-Windows
filesystems always report in alphabetic order.

> I fail to see how does it help, whether a file name is returned
> under the first N matches, or not.

Well, it is easy to disregard the names if they aren't needed.