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Re: The road to 1.3.11 -- please try the latest snapshot


On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 01:09:37AM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>"Conrad Scott" <Conrad.Scott@dsl.pipex.com> wrote
>> The only strangeness I've noticed has been in opening /proc with dired in
>> XEmacs. In the current (as this email) CVS HEAD version of cygwin,
>> XEmacs shows all the entries in /proc but gives me the error "No file on
>> this line" if I try to open any of them.
>
>Okay: red face time: dired is broken in xemacs 21.5-b6 for *everything*, and
>so it's *nothing* to do with /proc. The other problem about all the files
>opening
>as empty might be an issue but I'm busy building a more stable version of
>XEmacs to test it.
>
>Sorry for the false alert.

Don't worry about it.  I looked into this and found some problems with
the stat() code for virtual devices (cygdrive, proc), so, even if this
doesn't pan out, there was benefit.

cgf

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