Subject: Re: bug#40913: 24.5; Crash on open of file

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:00:46 +0300

> From: Jason Gibson <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:31:15 -0700
> 
> Attached is a file that crashes Emacs on find-file (find-file-literally
> does not crash).  E.g.:
> 
>   tar xf foo8.tar
>   LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 emacs -Q -nw --eval '(find-file "foo8")'
>   *poof*

Thanks.  This is a very old bug, now fixed on the emacs-27 branch.  If
you can build that branch, please see that the crash is gone now.