Subject: bug#18463: play-sound crashes emacs if file does not exist

From: Mario Valencia <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:41:57 -0500

It happens with any string whatsoever actually, even the empty string. it
only works if the file exists.

2014-09-13 3:39 GMT-05:00 Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:

> > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:31:52 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:35:22 -0500
> > > From: Mario Valencia <[email-masked]>
> > > Cc: [email-masked]
> > >
> > > I don't know where those binaries with debug info are.
> >
> > Here are 2 places:
> >
> >   https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3pgcb3iiy8s9irl/c171Xhsd99
> >   http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-bin/files/releases/
> >
> > On the 1st site, take the latest zip of the 24.3.91 series.
>
> But please wait for the next binary after today, since what is there
> now has its sound support disabled due to the bug I mentioned in my
> previous mail.
>
> Btw, do you see crashes for _any_ non-existing file, or just for some
> of them?  E.g., do you have non-ASCII characters in those file names?
> How about the leading directories: if the file name includes leading
> directories outside of the C:/Users tree, does the problem still
> happen?
>