Subject: bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:32:17 +0300

> From: Sean Devlin <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:17:28 -0400
> 
> > When I open Emacs 27.1 by invoking the executable directly (i.e. the
> > last method above), the default-directory in those buffers is "~/“.
> 
> Correction: the default directory is the working directory of the parent process (i.e. the shell) in this case.

If that's what happens, it's what I would expect, and it happens for
me on systems other than macOS.