GNU bug report logs - #29070
26.0.90; (file-attributes dir) => nil, even though (and (file-exists-p dir) (file-directory-p dir)) => t

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From: andrés ramírez <rrandresf <at> gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 29070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29070: 26.0.90; emacs-26.0.90 pretest
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:59:37 -0600

Hi Noam.
> Hmm, doesn't make sense that it could be disappearing in the middle and
> still have other stuff inside.  So that suggests that something is wrong
> with the file-attributes function.  Does (file-attributes
> "/tmp/emacs1000") consistently give you nil if you evaluate it multiple
> times?  What about (file-exists-p "/tmp/emacs1000")?  (file-directory-p
> "/tmp/emacs1000")?

Yes. Consistently gave me 'nil'. I have evaluated more than 20 times
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Welcome to the Emacs shell

~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $ (file-attributes "/tmp/emacs1000")
~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $ (file-attributes "/tmp/emacs1000")
~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $ (file-exists-p "/tmp/emacs1000")
t
~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $ (file-exists-p "/tmp/emacs1000")
t
~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $ (file-directory-p "/tmp/emacs1000")
t
~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $ (file-directory-p "/tmp/emacs1000")
t
~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $ (pp (file-attributes "/tmp/emacs1000"))
nil
~/abs/emacs-26.0.90/build-arm $
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