Subject: bug#74208: 31.0.50; minibuffer read-file-name-default mutates global value of default-directory incorrectly

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 20:27:56 +0200

> Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:53:57 +0530 (IST)
> From: Madhu <[email-masked]>
> 
> *  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
> Wrote on Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:20:45 +0200
> > Ping! Do we want to do anything about this issue?
> 
> is "Keep it open" an option? :)

That is not a valid interpretation of "do something", not in my book.

> (let ((default-directory "https://www.gnu.org/"))
>   (unhandled-file-name-directory default-directory))
> => "https://www.gnu.org/"

Which is why I asked what, if anything, do we want to do about it.