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27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p

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Message #79 received at 36502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: rms <at> gnu.org, schwab <at> suse.de, npostavs <at> gmail.com, 36502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, dan <at> dpsutton.com
Subject: Re: bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in
 file-name-case-insensitive-p
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 12:19:39 +0300

> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> CC: "dan <at> dpsutton.com" <dan <at> dpsutton.com>, "36502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
> 	<36502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, "npostavs <at> gmail.com" <npostavs <at> gmail.com>,
> 	"monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, "schwab <at> suse.de"
> 	<schwab <at> suse.de>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:39:24 +0000
> 
> On 7/12/2019 4:18 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 7/12/2019 2:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> It is only absolute if what follows ~ is a slash or a name of an
> >> existing user.  I think we should fix the inconsistency in that
> >> direction.
> > 
> > Patch attached.
> 
> Is the patch OK, Eli?  Here it is again, fleshed out with a commit message and test.

Thanks.  The patch looks OK to me, but shouldn't we also make
file-name-absolute-p recognize "~foo" as non-absolute when there's no
user named "foo"?  I thought we agreed this is a discrepancy we don't
want.

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