ST> What do we return on (native) Windows? Of course, it's not just Windows where this is an issue. Any filesystem that doesn't support symbolic links on Unix--like the vfat filesystem on my USB stick--will result in an error, too. ST> What should we do? There needs to be a sensible idiom for determining ST> whether this kind of platform-dependency function works without ST> memorizing them all. Is there an established idiom for handling other platform dependencies (e.g., operations that only work on a window system or on a particular window system)? It seems like the 3 main choices are (a) raise a signal, (b) return something to indicate failure, or (c) ignore the request. An API for "is operation foo supported" would be required for (c) and helpful for (a) or (b). Since Emacs (22.2.1) doesn't document a return value for make-symbolic-link, I suggest sticking with (a). make-symbolic-link is already documented to raise a signal in other circumstances. cheers, mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta