GNU bug report logs - #30350
27.0.50; Newest master can't run processes on macOS

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 20:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 30357

Found in version 27.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #55 received at 30350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag <at> dottedmag.net>
Cc: 30350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#30350: Build breakage of master on MacOS 10.13
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 18:56:10 +0000

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 04:27:40PM +0100, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> Yes, it is. I can't find the relevant sources right away, but opening a
> file inside a file is a syntax for opening  resource forks under OS X,
> so `/foo/bar/baz/.` is a "directory" of resource forks there. This
> syntax is not likely to go away anytime soon.

Hmm, perhaps this method of checking for a directory just won’t ever
work reliably on macOS then.
-- 
Alan Third
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