bug#10928: 24.0.94; dired-mode on /proj/foo/bar gives error : dir-locals-read-from-file: Opening input file: No such file or directory, /proj/.dir-locals.el

[Glenn Morris]

Vardhan Varma wrote:

> On the machine, '/proj' is a nfs mounted directory .. if it helps you !

I tried with an nfs-mounted /proj, it still works for me.
Does this only happen with directories literally called "/proj"?

> I also got following message on trying to open a file:
> Directory-local variables error: (file-error "Opening input file" "No
> such file or directory" "/proj/.dir-locals.el")

What does

ls -l /proj/.dir-locals.el

say in a shell?


What does

emacs -Q

M-: (dir-locals-find-file "/proj/foo/bar") RET

return?