Subject: Re: bug#15866: Gnutls elisp code doesn't properly check for file existence

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:34:48 +0100

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Wouldn't a solution here be to introduce a variable like
> `inhibit-file-handlers' that would really inhibit all Lisp-level file
> handlers?  Doesn't Emacs have that already?  Hm...
> `inhibit-file-name-handlers' doesn't quite seem to do the trick, I
> guess?

`inhibit-file-name-handlers' is always used in conjunction with
`inhibit-file-name-operation'. Their purpose is to prevent recursive
call of a file name handler. So it isn't appropriate here.

Just for the records ...

Best regards, Michael.