> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:38:14 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Alternatively, it could use start-process to run ls asychronously > as a way to find out whether the directory is empty.
There's no need to run any program just to know if a directory is empty. Emacs has primitives which will tell that directly (e.g., file-attributes) and do that faster. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
