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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sean Devlin <spd <at> toadstyle.org>
Cc: 42836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:32:17 +0300

> From: Sean Devlin <spd <at> toadstyle.org>
> 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.
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