bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:32:04 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote: 

>> From: <emacs@kosowsky.org>
>> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 10:12:27 -0500
>> Cc: emacs@kosowsky.org, 15648@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Looking through files.el, I noticed that there is a function that
>> seems to be similar in intent.
>> 
>> The function is called convert-standard-filename. All it really does
>> currently is replace invalid characters/filenames for
>> cygwin/windows-nt/ms-dos.

EZ> No, please leave that function alone.  Its purpose is different: to
EZ> convert a _standard_ file name used in Emacs, such as ".emacs", to
EZ> something the underlying system can use.  IOW, that function is so
EZ> that Posix systems could use any file name they want, and non-Posix
EZ> systems adapt.

Isn't that exactly what's breaking here?  We specify a POSIX file name
in `/usr/...' that's not translated automatically to something the
system can handle.

Ted