home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Frank Siebenlist wrote:
- >
- > My idea was that this was an automatic, and more generic and proper way
- > to deal with these "great" automounters.
-
- That should work, but you're specifying too much; you only need to specify
- the actual automount prefix, but your specifying your whole homedir. And
- it only works for files under your homedir, not all automounted files.
- This is Unix. You can't win.
-
- (Also you need to call regexp-quote, because what if the directory names
- contain regexp characters like ".".)
-
- > Do I miss something?
- > How will files look as if they have been deleted?
-
- Because the automounter goes around and dismounts things after a while.
- So if I were to visit "/tmp_mnt/net/foo/bar.txt" and then do revert-buffer
- a few hours later, I might be told "file no longer exists." But if I were
- using the "official" name of "/net/foo/bar.txt", then it would re-mount the
- file system for me and everything would work fine.
-
- So we've got a system which tends to hand you pathnames which are illegal
- for you to use, but subtly so. Isn't that just SWELL?
-
- -- Jamie
-
-