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28.1.50; No directory error in comp-run-async-workers

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Message #38 received at 55743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 55743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#55743: 28.1.50; No directory error in comp-run-async-workers
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 10:17:10 +0200

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

> We require that default-directory be valid whenever Emacs needs to run
> a subprocess.  This is a basic requirement for all Lisp programs using
> this facility.  Native compilation is not different from any other
> Lisp program that invokes a subprocess.

Any asynchronous background process has to ensure that it starts from a
sensible directory -- not whatever default-directory that happens to be
in place in the current buffer.

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