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

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Message #30 received at 2631-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
        2631-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2631: get-free-disk-space when default-directory doesn't exist
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:34:14 -0400

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

> That would probably work OK, but why not bind default-directory to
> dir?  And even use process-file, while we're at it, so it has a chance
> to work on Tramp.

I don't think there's any chance to make get-free-disk-space to work on
remote files without major surgery (it currently returns nil immediately
if the file is remote).

I've checked in a modified version of Kevin's patch, which sets
default-directory to "~/" rather than "/", but only if the existing
default-directory is not usable.

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