Subject: Re: bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 17:21:31 +0300

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> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 19:32:30 -0700
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> My impression from looking at uses of file-name-absolute-p 
> is that changing it to return nil here would improve correctness of the callers, 
> though there would be a performance cost for this case of course.

I agree.

So Ken, please push your changes, and I would appreciate if you could
also make the change in file-name-absolute-p (as a separate change),
if you have time.

Thanks.