Subject: Re: bug#3252: 23.0.93; extremely slow to open file on windows network drive
From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
To: Chris Withers <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:52:26 +0800

Chris Withers wrote:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>   locate-dominating-file("//Server2/chris/folder/file.cfg" 
> ".dir-locals.el")

Thanks, there was a / missing from the regexp in 
locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp, so the search wasn't actually 
terminating at the root of UNC drives, instead a fruitless and time 
consuming search for a machine on the network called ".dir-locals.el" 
would occur.