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24.0.50; [PATCH] `ls-lisp-insert-directory' should be no-op for empty FILE

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Message #8 received at 7112 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 7112 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.0.50;
	[PATCH] `ls-lisp-insert-directory' should be no-op for empty FILE
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:18:43 +0200

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> You can call `dired' passing a cons arg that includes a list of file
> names.  An empty file name causes this ugly error: 
>
> (error "Args out of range: \"\", -1")
>
> The reason is the following code near the end of
> `ls-lisp-insert-directory':

I think this should most likely be fixed in the caller (i.e., in
dired.el).  What's the backtrace for this bug?

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