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

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 27871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst <at> google.com>
Subject: Re: bug#27871: [PATCH] Treat unreachable current directory as error
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 14:56:11 +0000

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Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am So., 8. Okt. 2017 um 08:06 Uhr:

> Philipp Stephani wrote:
> > All of the current directory functions exhibit this behavior, including
> > getwd and getcwd, so you need to make sure they are also covered.
>
> Thanks for letting us know. I installed the 2nd attached patch, which
> addresses
> this by making the patch behave more like what you originally proposed,
> while
> still avoiding the need to use file_name_absolute_p (which is about Emacs
> file
> names, not OS names).
>

That should work, thanks. FTR, this behavior is documented in the Linux
manpage: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getcwd.2.html

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