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24.0.50; Incorrect handling of variable 'display-time-mail-function'

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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu <at> denx.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.0.50;
	Incorrect handling of variable 'display-time-mail-function'
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:18:30 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Detlev Zundel <dzu <at> denx.de> writes:

> As I understand the documentation, the variable
> 'display-time-mail-function' should allow to provide a function which
> decides whether to display the mail icon in the status area.
>
> Unfortunately the code does not allow this semantic, as the code uses an
> or expression over several possibilities (lisp/time.el:407):
>
>         (mail (or (and display-time-mail-function
>                        (funcall display-time-mail-function))
>                   (and display-time-mail-directory
>                        (display-time-mail-check-directory))
>                   (and (stringp mail-spool-file)
>                        (or (null display-time-server-down-time)
>                            ;; If have been down for 20 min, try again.
>                            (> (- (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
>                               1200)
>                            (and (< (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
>                                 (> (- (nth 1 now)
>                                       display-time-server-down-time)
>                                    -64336)))
>                        (let ((start-time (current-time)))
>                          (prog1
>                              (display-time-file-nonempty-p mail-spool-file)
>                            (if (> (- (nth 1 (current-time))
>                                      (nth 1 start-time))
>                                   20)
>                                ;; Record that mail file is not accessible.
>                                (setq display-time-server-down-time
>                                      (nth 1 (current-time)))
>                              ;; Record that mail file is accessible.
>                              (setq display-time-server-down-time nil)))))))
>
>
> So when display-time-mail-function is set but returns nil, then the
> following tests will still be evaluated instead of using this negative
> result.
>
> As a fix I propose the attached patch.

This patch is actually erroneous - it has a missing closing parenthesis
and an unrelated typeo.  The attached patch is tested.  Sorry for the
inconvenience.

Cheers
  Detlev

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[time.el-2.patch (text/x-diff, inline)]

diff --git a/lisp/time.el b/lisp/time.el
index d512fae..2f8eda7 100644
--- a/lisp/time.el
+++ b/lisp/time.el
@@ -404,30 +404,31 @@ update which can wait for the next redisplay."
                               (getenv "MAIL")
                               (concat rmail-spool-directory
                                       (user-login-name))))
-	 (mail (or (and display-time-mail-function
-			(funcall display-time-mail-function))
-		   (and display-time-mail-directory
-			(display-time-mail-check-directory))
-		   (and (stringp mail-spool-file)
-			(or (null display-time-server-down-time)
-			    ;; If have been down for 20 min, try again.
-			    (> (- (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
-			       1200)
-			    (and (< (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
-				 (> (- (nth 1 now)
-				       display-time-server-down-time)
-				    -64336)))
-			(let ((start-time (current-time)))
-			  (prog1
-			      (display-time-file-nonempty-p mail-spool-file)
-			    (if (> (- (nth 1 (current-time))
-				      (nth 1 start-time))
-				   20)
-				;; Record that mail file is not accessible.
-				(setq display-time-server-down-time
-				      (nth 1 (current-time)))
-			      ;; Record that mail file is accessible.
-			      (setq display-time-server-down-time nil)))))))
+	 (mail (cond (display-time-mail-function
+		      (funcall display-time-mail-function))
+		     (display-time-mail-directory
+		      (display-time-mail-check-directory))
+		     ((stringp mail-spool-file)
+		      (and
+		       (or (null display-time-server-down-time)
+			   ;; If have been down for 20 min, try again.
+			   (> (- (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
+			      1200)
+			   (and (< (nth 1 now) display-time-server-down-time)
+				(> (- (nth 1 now)
+				      display-time-server-down-time)
+				   -64336)))
+		       (let ((start-time (current-time)))
+			 (prog1
+			     (display-time-file-nonempty-p mail-spool-file)
+			   (if (> (- (nth 1 (current-time))
+				     (nth 1 start-time))
+				  20)
+			       ;; Record that mail file is not accessible.
+			       (setq display-time-server-down-time
+				     (nth 1 (current-time)))
+			     ;; Record that mail file is accessible.
+			     (setq display-time-server-down-time nil))))))))
          (24-hours (substring time 11 13))
          (hour (string-to-number 24-hours))
          (12-hours (int-to-string (1+ (% (+ hour 11) 12))))

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