From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, 11890@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11890: 24.1; (wrong-type-argument processp nil) in `shell-mode'
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:13:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shy590fl.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42210bb6-aac5-4853-8813-51e689996892@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:10:14 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Do you have a recipe from -Q? From the backtrace included, it kinda
>> looked like the bug was triggered from your own code.
>
> No, and it should not matter. The command should not just barf with
> a wrong-type error msg.
>
> As the bug report says:
>
> Clearly, this code in shell.el is not tolerant of there being no process:
>
> (file-name-nondirectory
> (car (process-command (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))))
>
> I imagine that it should be, or rather that it should perhaps raise an
> error with a more suitable message.
There are many functions that may fail if called with invalid parameters
or in invalid buffers. Emacs does not attempt to cover them all with
user-level error messages.
If you don't have a recipe here, I don't see what how to proceed
further, and I'm closing this bug report.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-09 15:36 bug#11890: 24.1; (wrong-type-argument processp nil) in `shell-mode' Drew Adams
2012-07-09 15:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-09 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-16 23:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 15:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 16:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-28 16:16 ` Drew Adams
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