From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2018@jovi.net>
Cc: 45540@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45540: 27.1; symbolic links crash dired
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 23:48:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6szs21p.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z4kq84p.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:34:46 +0100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2018@jovi.net> writes:
>
>> Here's a fix. I did NOT check this carefully.
>> Dired crashes when (< (length file-name) (length root))
>
> The patch looks reasonable -- but do you have a test case that
> reproduces this bug (starting from "emacs -Q") so that we can verify the
> bug and the fix?
I tried various link scenarios to come up with a case where file-name
was shorter than root, and I was unable to. Do you have a test case for
such a setup?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-29 21:54 bug#45540: 27.1; symbolic links crash dired Devon Sean McCullough
2020-12-30 3:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-23 22:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
[not found] ` <a6d7e822-42e1-0d77-e314-06dd4be0c848@jovi.net>
2021-01-25 23:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-01 15:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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