Subject: 23.0.91; ls -al under eshell doesn't work on Windows Vista
From: "Derek Kivi" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:48:21 -0600

In eshell, running the command "ls -al" can produce the following error:

c:/Derek $ ls -al

total 593

Wrong type argument: integerp, -2023488832.0

From correspondence with Eli Zaretskii on the help-emacs-windows mailing

list, this is due to the fact that a user's uid can be a float larger
than

an Emacs Lisp integer can hold.

The owner of the .. directory (c: itself) appears to be a user called

TrustedInstaller.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001)

 of 2009-02-26 on LENNART-69DE564

Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.0.6001

configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'

Important settings:

  value of $LC_ALL: nil

  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil

  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil

  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil

  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil

  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil

  value of $LC_TIME: nil

  value of $LANG: ENC

  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil

  locale-coding-system: cp1252

  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: EShell

Minor modes in effect:

  tooltip-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  global-auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  column-number-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:

M-x e s h e l l <return> l s SPC - a l <return> c d 

<return> l s SPC - a l <return> c d SPC . . <return> 

l s SPC - a l <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x 

r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:

Loading em-basic...done

Loading em-cmpl...done

Loading em-dirs...done

Loading em-glob...done

Loading em-hist...done

Loading em-ls...done

Loading em-prompt...done

Loading em-script...done

Loading em-term...done

Loading em-unix...done

-- 
Derek Kivi
Senior Software Developer

QuIC Financial Technologies Inc. 
Office: +1 403 210 8282 
Mobile: +1 403 863 5204 
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