From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL causes Emacs abort Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:25:40 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F394D44.5010402@pajato.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060720591 12074 80.91.224.253 (12 Aug 2003 20:36:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 12 22:36:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19mfsb-0001qQ-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:36:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19mg0S-00029g-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:44:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19mfkU-0007wq-Mj for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19mfiy-0006ru-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19mfiB-0004q8-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.113.133.197] (helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19mfi9-0004l5-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:25:41 -0400 Original-Received: from pajato.com ([12.38.10.128]) by copa.pajato.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7CKPerF031908; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:25:40 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15908 Robert J. Chassell wrote: >Today's CVS snapshot, Tue, 2003 Aug 12 14:28 UTC >GNU Emacs 21.3.50.33 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) >started with > > /usr/local/bin/emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)' > >When both /var/mail/bob and ~/RMAIL are zero length files, >the command > > M-x rmail > >causes Emacs to abort. The same occurs when either /var/mail/bob or >~/RMAIL have content. > >However, when /var/mail/bob is a zero length file, > when a full ~/RMAIL is first found with `M-x find-file-literally' and > when rmail is run with a prefix command, `C-u M-x rmail' > then Emacs does not abort and I can read my RMAIL. > >Here is the GDB backtrace from the first situation, >starting Emacs with both /var/mail/bob and ~/RMAIL as zero length files. >The command was `M-x rmail': > > ... I will take a look at this problem. -pmr