Subject: Re: bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist

From: Kevin Ryde <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:00:10 +1100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> why not bind default-directory to dir?

I think that'd make it error out on a non-existant dir argument, where
currently it returns nil (from the df parsing code, and it looks like
from file-system-info in dosfns.c).

There's a few other places binding to "/", like man.el and message.el,
if it ought to be something else ...