> 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.
If directory-files blocks (on a failed NFS server), file-attributes is
pretty likely to block just as well, in which case `ls' may be a good way to
do the equivalent of running directory-files asynchronously.
Stefan
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