GNU bug report logs - #27871
26.0.50; Bad handling of unmounted directory

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:08:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 27871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 27871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst <at> google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Treat unreachable current directory as error
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 17:00:06 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Philipp Stephani wrote:

> +  if (!file_name_absolute_p (dir))

That doesn't look right here, since leading '~' counts as absolute to 
file_name_absolute_p, which is not what is wanted here.

> +      errno = ENOTCONN;

Why ENOTCONN? Shouldn't it be ENOENT? The failure has nothing to do with socket 
connections.

Also, I'd feel a bit better if we apply the workaround only to the function that 
has the problem.

How about the attached patch instead?

[0001-Fix-bug-with-unmounted-directory-on-GNU-Linux.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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