GNU bug report logs - #18658
24.3; deformed server-socket-dir

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2014 <at> jovi.net>

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 19:59:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 24513

Found in versions 24.3, 25.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2014 <at> jovi.net>
Cc: 18658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18658: 24.3; deformed server-socket-dir
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:03:57 -0400

Devon Sean McCullough wrote:

> Double slashes in server-socket-dir is a bug waiting to happen.

You mean, if someone sets TMPDIR to a value ending in a slash?
POSIX requires (non-leading) multiple / in a filename to be entirely
equivalent to one /, so it it hard to see how this could cause any
problems. Nevertheless expand-file-name does seem a bit cleaner.
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