Subject: Re: bug#3252: 23.0.93; extremely slow to open file on windows network drive

From: Chris Withers <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:00:27 +0100

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>>   locate-dominating-file("//Server2/chris/folder/file.cfg" 
>> ".dir-locals.el")
> 
> Thanks, there was a / missing from the regexp in 
> locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp, so the search wasn't actually 
> terminating at the root of UNC drives, instead a fruitless and time 
> consuming search for a machine on the network called ".dir-locals.el" 
> would occur.

Interesting.

Does Emacs have an automated unit test suite?
The last couple of bugs I've filed all appear to have been funny little 
things like this which I'd expect unit tests to catch...

Anyway, what version of emacs 23 will this fix land in and when will it 
be released?

cheers,

Chris

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