Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 
>> Hmm, I seem to have confused things by trying to combine the fix for
>> 16406 and 17848.  Just replacing the file-exists-p test, as in the patch
>> below, is enough to fix this bug.  Let's look at 17848 separately.
>> 
>>                              (file-ex (expand-file-name file)))
>> -                       (when (file-exists-p file-ex)
>> +                       (when (and file-ex (file-regular-p file-ex))
>
> OK.  But isn't the "and file-ex" test unnecessary?  It wasn't required
> for file-exists-p, so why is it for file-regular-p?

Indeed, not required. It's just leftover confusion.