Title: AW: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run fromtimer-event-handler
>> With the current available elisp-tools (macos, functions etc.) ECB can run
>> these tasks only pseudo-stealthy...therefore a way to make this really
>> stealthy would be very importa
In fact: ECB has some tasks which should be run really(!) stealthy, like
checking if a dir is empty, getting the VC-state of all files in a dir,
checking which files in a dir are read-only... in case of a remote host
The best way to do this and make sure it is stealthy is by running a
Title: AW: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run fromtimer-event-handler
>> ECB encapslates ist "stealthy" tasks in a loop like:
>> (while (and (not (input-pending-p))
>> ...
>> So IMHO C-g should work
>Only if
> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:27:46 +0200
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
>
> >A combination of file-attributes (looking at the number of links) and
> >directory-files should do that, I think.
>
> Hmm, maybe i oversee something here - but when you have to call
> direc
Title: AW: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run fromtimer-event-handler
>>> 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)
