From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 36263@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36263: Fixed in master
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:22:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83muigtexp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkR2rD=AOq6fw-A_cd3yEWeO1gWgSWKG9E+WDjPqfn-gFQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:33:57 +0200)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:33:57 +0200
>
> This bug is no longer present in master. It would be nice to backport
> a fix to the release branch since it's a crashing bug that's quite
> easy to trigger.
AFAICT, the "fix" on master is quite convoluted, and IMO doesn't
really solve the problem, it just makes it harder to reproduce: when
HOME is not defined, Emacs 27 calls alternative interfaces, but if
those also fail to returns a usable string, it eventually can also
return an empty string, and cause the same assertion violation.
OTOH, I see the same assertion violation in Emacs 25.2, so this is far
from a new problem.
On the third hand, this assertion compiles to nothing in a production
version, so a production version doesn't crash.
Therefore, it sounds like it isn't important enough to fix this on the
release branch, unless I'm missing something.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-17 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-17 12:23 bug#36263: 26.2.90; expand-file-name assertion failure if HOME is unset Philipp Stephani
2019-06-17 12:33 ` bug#36263: Fixed in master Philipp Stephani
2019-06-17 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-17 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-22 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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