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bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-inse
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Ken Brown |
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bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p |
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Sun, 7 Jul 2019 14:09:03 +0000 |
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On 7/6/2019 12:14 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 15:38:14 +0000
>> Cc: "36502@debbugs.gnu.org" <36502@debbugs.gnu.org>
>>
>>> + && !NILP (Ffile_name_absolute_p (filename)))
>>> {
>>> filename = Ffile_name_directory (filename);
>>> while (NILP (Ffile_exists_p (filename)))
>>>
>>> Or maybe signal an error, either way seems better than just getting stuck.
>>
>> Maybe expand-file-name should signal an error if default-directory is
>> relative?
>
> That'd not be my first preference. My first preference would be to
> detect the cases where we are about to loop. Can we do that?
The only case I can think of where we might loop is the case we're discussing,
in which expand-file-name fails to return an absolute name. Noam's patch is
fine for that case. But wouldn't it be better to fix expand-file-name so that
it always returns an absolute name, as it's documented to do?
Ken
- bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Daniel Sutton, 2019/07/04
- bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/04
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- bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/04
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- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Daniel Sutton, 2019/07/05
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/06
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Noam Postavsky, 2019/07/06
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/06
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/06
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p,
Ken Brown <=
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/07
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/07
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/10
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/11