[Bug: 21.4.21] dired complains about an unrelated directory

[Michael Sperber]

mike.kupfer at xemacs.org writes:

>>>>>> "MikeS" == Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> writes:
>
> MikeS> Either way a piece of user convenience goes out the window.
> MikeS> (Either it fails to properly update and reuse existing Dired
> MikeS> buffers, or you get the error described.)  Suggestions welcome.
>
> Could the truename be saved as a property of the buffer when dired first
> visits the directory?

It's probably easier to just fail more gracefully.  Could you try the
attached patch?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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RCS file: /cvsroot/elisp-code/elisp-code/dired/dired.el,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -u -r1.77 dired.el
--- dired.el	13 Jan 2008 14:50:05 -0000	1.77
+++ dired.el	5 Mar 2008 08:49:58 -0000
@@ -1816,7 +1816,9 @@
 	    (if (and (eq major-mode mode)
 		     (equal (if (or (not (boundp 'find-file-compare-truenames))
 				    find-file-compare-truenames)
-				(dired-directory-truename dired-directory)
+				(condition-case nil
+				    (dired-directory-truename dired-directory)
+				  (error nil))
 			      dired-directory)
 			    search-directory))
 		(setq found (car blist)