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Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handle
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:15:29 -0400 |
There's no need to run any program just to know if a directory is
empty. Emacs has primitives which will tell that directly (e.g.,
file-attributes) and do that faster.
How do you determine that from file-attributes? It is not obvious.
You might try to do it from the number of hard links to the directory,
which will normally be 2 for an empty directory, since users normally
can't create alternate names for a directory. But isn't it possible
for root to create them? Then an empty directory could have a link count
greater than two.
Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler, Stefan Monnier, 2005/08/09