Subject: bug#16884: 24.3.50; desktop-read should not die on non-existing directories

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:36:45 -0500

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> If you run
>
>   M-: (dired "/Users/sds/.emacs.d/auto-saves/*") <RET>
>
> (assuming that the auto-saves directory is empty), do you get an error?

Yes. In just the same way as

M-: (dired "/blargh") RET

throws an error.

This is all fine in normal use.

But dired-restore-desktop-buffer should trap the "glob match fails" case
in just the same way as it traps the "no such directory" case.