GNU bug report logs - #24471
25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in versions 25.1, 25.1.50

Fixed in version 25.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Stromeko <at> nexgo.de, 24471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24471: 25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:14:35 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:28:46 -0400
> Cc: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>, 24471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Ah, the custom :standard value is different from the initial value,
> which uses decode_env_path. Is it possible to use the same code for
> both? It seems that decode_env_path handles some extra things: file
> name encoding, checking for file name handlers.

File name encoding should not be the problem, because the Lisp getenv
takes care of that already (see make_string).  As for file-name
handlers, do we expect PATH to include such file names?
(decode_env_path is more general, and used not just for PATH.)
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