GNU bug report logs - #48476
Bug#988581: emacs-gtk: Emacs hangs with 100% cpu if started within a current directory that has a name ending with ".tar"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>

Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 22:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 60796

Found in version 27.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: 988581-forwarded <at> bugs.debian.org, Thomas Lundqvist <tlundqvist <at> acm.org>,
 988581 <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#988581: emacs-gtk: Emacs hangs with 100% cpu if started
 within a current directory that has a name ending with ".tar"
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 17:49:25 -0500

[When possible/appropriate, please preserve the 988581-forwarded address
 in replies.]

Recently reported, and I can reproduce it locally with -Q (and with the
lucid flavor) too.

Thomas Lundqvist <tlundqvist <at> acm.org> writes:

> Package: emacs-gtk
> Version: 1:27.1+1-3.1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> My emacs get stuck with 100% cpu when started from a directory ending with
> ".tar".
>
> For example, the following commands trigger the error:
> - mkdir test.tar
> - cd test.tar
> - emacs


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