GNU bug report logs - #2631
get-free-disk-space when home dir also doesn't exist

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 3911

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 2631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:00:10 +1100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
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> 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 ...
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