From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 23743@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:15:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-8zXHvtKeVgfwO=SPCxUkqkFuWmWK+wnkmOxEd7wiu7-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d1noq30o.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:35:54 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>>
>> Apparently it doesn't like `<' in a file name?
>
> Yes, Windows doesn't allow that.
>
>> If so, and if that is "normal", then the user should get a much
>> better error message than this.
>
> That's the error that comes from the filesystem, Emacs doesn't know
> any better.
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-10 17:35 bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el Drew Adams
2016-06-10 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21 3:15 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2016-06-21 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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