GNU bug report logs - #46426
28.0.50; Emacs crashes when call-process destination argument is a cons cell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Perry <stevoooo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 46426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stephen Perry <stevoooo <at> gmail.com>, 46426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46426: 28.0.50; Emacs crashes when call-process destination
 argument is a cons cell
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:29:13 +0200

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

>> Hi - got my destination argument to call-process wrong by using a 
>> cons
>> cell instead of a list and managed to kill my Emacs.  Have also
>> reproduced it using the following in Emacs 26.1 on Debian and 
>> Emacs 27.1
>> on macOS:
>> 
>>   emacs -Q --eval '(call-process "wc" nil (cons :file 
>>   "/tmp/foo"))'
>
> Thanks, this should now be fixed on the emacs-27 branch.

This bug report was left open, so I'm closing it now.

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