GNU bug report logs - #56443
28.1; Mac segmentation fault with ffap

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Reported by: Stephen Eglen <sje30 <at> cam.ac.uk>

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 17:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sje30 <at> cam.ac.uk, 56443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: bug#56443: 28.1; Mac segmentation fault with ffap
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 15:14:39 +0200

8 juli 2022 kl. 12.45 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> Fine with me, but please update the comment to this effect.

Certainly.

> But why does the original call to file_name_case_insensitive_err fail
> in this case with err > 0 on macOS, and what is the value of err?

It fails because the argument, "mailto:some <at> mail.address", is not an existing file and so pathconf(filename, _PC_CASE_SENSITIVE) returns -1 which means "don't know". (If a file of that name is indeed created then it returns 0 here because this is a case-insensitive file system.)

Perhaps we shouldn't ask about case-sensitivity for such names but then again those are legal file names to open and Ffile_name_insensitive_p doesn't know the intentions of the caller, and in any case the error leads us to try the parent directory which doesn't exist so everything works out for the best with the patch.

Pushed to master, with a test.
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 14 days ago.

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