From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:15:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d1noq30o.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466478985 24683 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2016 03:16:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 03:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23743@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 21 05:16:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bFCAg-0003rB-CF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:16:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFCAf-0008Og-LR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Right, cf https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/177506 Is it worth blocking this sort of file name in read-file-name, or should we just mark this wontfix?