From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>,
42836@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:54:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2dedd0c-2163-a6ab-a026-ef6e0d67d99f@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200813145237.GA26932@breton.holly.idiocy.org>
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On 8/13/20 7:52 AM, Alan Third wrote:
> I suspect the best solution here is to move the code at line
> emacs.c:1623 to before emacs_wd is set. What do you think, Paul?
It's probably safer to leave the code where it is, and to update emacs_wd if
Emacs chdirs successfully.
Does the attached patch work for you? If so, I can install it into the emacs-27
branch. (I don't use macOS so can't easily test it myself.)
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From 5bf06fd09669d4b48dc0e3f3f756006d0ca2059b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:48:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix startup working dir bug on NeXTSTEP
* src/emacs.c (main) [NS_IMPL_COCOA]: Update emacs_wd
after a NS GUI chdirs successfully (Bug#42836).
---
src/emacs.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 1dcf195891..11dcdb33fe 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -1638,23 +1638,27 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
{
#ifdef NS_IMPL_COCOA
/* Started from GUI? */
- /* FIXME: Do the right thing if get_homedir returns "", or if
- chdir fails. */
- if (! inhibit_window_system && ! isatty (STDIN_FILENO) && ! ch_to_dir)
- chdir (get_homedir ());
+ bool go_home = (!ch_to_dir && !inhibit_window_system
+ && !isatty (STDIN_FILENO));
if (skip_args < argc)
{
if (!strncmp (argv[skip_args], "-psn", 4))
{
skip_args += 1;
- if (! ch_to_dir) chdir (get_homedir ());
+ go_home |= !ch_to_dir;
}
else if (skip_args+1 < argc && !strncmp (argv[skip_args+1], "-psn", 4))
{
skip_args += 2;
- if (! ch_to_dir) chdir (get_homedir ());
+ go_home |= !ch_to_dir;
}
}
+ if (go_home)
+ {
+ char const *home = get_homedir ();
+ if (*home && chdir (home) == 0)
+ emacs_wd = emacs_get_current_dir_name ();
+ }
#endif /* COCOA */
}
#endif /* HAVE_NS */
--
2.17.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-13 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-12 20:53 bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup Sean Devlin
[not found] ` <handler.42836.B.15972656459719.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2020-08-12 21:17 ` Sean Devlin
2020-08-12 22:52 ` Alan Third
2020-08-13 14:52 ` Alan Third
2020-08-13 19:54 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-08-13 21:18 ` Sean Devlin
2020-08-13 22:06 ` Alan Third
2020-08-13 22:44 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-13 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 4:08 ` Sean Devlin
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