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25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display

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Message #46 received at 22096-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 22096-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22096: 25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 02:11:34 +0000

Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu> writes:

> On 05/12/15 at 09:38pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
>> > Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 13:29:14 -0500
>> >
>> > Simpler recipe:
>> >
>> > 1. mkfifo foo
>> > 2. echo "bar" > foo
>> >
>> > In emacs -Q:
>> >
>> > 3. Evaluate (insert-file-contents-literally "foo" t)
>> >
>> > The buffer display is now broken.
>>
>> Thanks.  My Emacs is configured with --enable-checking, so it aborted
>> due to assertion violation.  The patch below fixes that for me; please
>> see if it fixes the display problem for you.
>>
>> diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
>> index 6cda1e3..8e44eb0 100644
>> --- a/src/fileio.c
>> +++ b/src/fileio.c
>> @@ -4265,7 +4265,7 @@ by calling `format-decode', which see.  */)
>> 	  && NILP (replace))
>> 	/* Visiting a file with these coding system makes the buffer
>> 	   unibyte.  */
>> -	bset_enable_multibyte_characters (current_buffer, Qnil);
>> +	Fset_buffer_multibyte (Qnil);
>>      }
>>
>>    coding.dst_multibyte = ! NILP (BVAR (current_buffer, enable_multibyte_charac\
>> ters));
>>
>
> The patch does indeed fix the display problem. Thank you.

This was fixed, but the bug was never closed.

I'm therefore closing this bug report now.

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