GNU bug report logs - #40913
24.5; Crash on open of file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jason Gibson <jgibson <at> perforce.com>

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.5

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Gibson <jgibson <at> perforce.com>
Cc: 40913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40913: 24.5; Crash on open of file
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:00:46 +0300

> From: Jason Gibson <jgibson <at> perforce.com>
> 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.
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