From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Assuming errstring unibyte is incorrect and leads to Emacs crashes Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:20:37 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87y72ju1mg.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219893650 20839 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2008 03:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dima@sphinx.net.ru To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 28 05:21:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYY4t-00071s-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:21:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYY3u-00072D-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYY3r-00071q-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYY3q-00071e-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34090 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYY3p-00071W-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:59152) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYY3p-0000zO-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:37 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.211.50]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K6A009KOJZBTA00@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:21:11 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103068 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > CC: cyd@stupidchicken.com, dima@sphinx.net.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:40:01 +0900 > > > Can we explain in a comment what is special about a slash as the > > second character of the error message? > > We should, but I don't know the reason. By grepping > ChangeLog files, I found this item: > > 1991-02-21 Richard Stallman (rms@mole.ai.mit.edu) > > * fileio.c (report_file_error): Don't downcase "I/O". > > Is this the reason? Yes, that's what I remembered as well. But if the reason is "I/O", why not test for that explicitly? Do certain locales translate "I/O" into a different string, which still has a slash as its second character? (I'm having a strange feeling that we already discussed this at some point in the past. Perhaps searching the archives will bring some useful hits.)