Subject: Re: bug#18836: 25.0.50; `insert-directory' barfs on nonexistent file, but not for `ls-lisp-insert-directory'

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:13:53 +0100

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> It seems that at least on some platforms (e.g. GNU/Linux), if you give
> an explicit list of files and dirs to `dired', to list (which you do by
> passing a cons as argument DIRNAME), the command fails with an error:
> (file-error "Reading directory"
>             "no such file or directory"
>             "/usr/foo/no-such-file.txt")
>
> No such error is raised on platforms that use `ls-lisp'.

This has changed between reporting this bug and now -- both now signal
errors currently, so I'm closing this bug report.

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