GNU bug report logs - #42836
27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sean Devlin <spd <at> toadstyle.org>

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 44446

Found in version 27.1

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 42836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Sean Devlin <spd <at> toadstyle.org>
Cc: 42836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:52:51 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 05:17:28PM -0400, Sean Devlin wrote:
> > 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.

The code at line 1623 of emacs.c appears to be supposed to set the
correct starting directory, however it doesn't matter what it does
there. I've tried hard coding directories and all sorts, but it ALWAYS
ends up starting in "/"... I think something somewhere else must be
resetting it. I can't find where just now. I may have to do a git bisect,
which I don't much fancy.
-- 
Alan Third
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