From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 56469@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56469: 29.0.50; Unibyte dir in directory_files_internal
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:27:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zghgz8mc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmtdg8vqh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:13:39 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 56469@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:13:39 -0400
>
> > I don't think file-name related stuff can work in Emacs when
> > file-name-coding-system is set to an arbitrary value not reflecting
> > the reality.
>
> I'd tend to agree (tho 'binary' does sound like a valid value which
> should work in all cases under GNU/Linux).
'binary' exactly means that you end up with unibyte strings and with
raw bytes in multibyte strings.
> I'm just a bit annoyed at the idea that ELisp code can end up
> constructing a multibyte string whose bytes contain invalid utf-8
> sequences, because I suspect we may end up with a core dump somewhere in
> such a circumstance.
Emacs should cope with this without dumping core, but the resulting
file names might not be readable by humans nor friendly to other
programs.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-09 17:44 bug#56469: 29.0.50; Unibyte dir in directory_files_internal Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-09 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-09 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-09 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-10 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-10 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-10 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-10 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-10 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-10 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-10 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-11 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-05 19:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-07 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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