From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:08:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83licfjnny.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356923403 9464 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2012 03:10:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12351@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 31 04:10:19 2012 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 1TpVlY-0006Uc-0k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:10:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpVlI-00020u-QR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpVlE-00020o-Pk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpVlD-0000ax-F6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpVlD-0000ah-Bh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TpVmI-0006VX-Di for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:11:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Dave Abrahams Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:11:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12351 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12351-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12351.135692341324952 (code B ref 12351); Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:11:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12351) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2012 03:10:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37476 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TpVlU-0006UP-3d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:64323) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TpVlR-0006UH-Be for 12351@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-vc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id d16so12351120vcd.5 for <12351@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:09:01 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=vE4ImYoHXFJbEa5Thfd/ODa6Lrc4K5/uVJ1zKOB6aEw=; b=ZnAawzy5N1hbhNLUqIMz6UlfFvHrMHGgvfZMC3IETdaA1h+Bzhm0UF6kGQryrhIio3 KsWvtsN7l1w3mxGmMuupldLrWL8O4t37N1p/6M3VCl/X6st8FRcyqaAZwKc49HOrK/Wj KlT8mJxB9wZAvGaY/e5h+9YoLMXEPlpDQ+GqabedzNEmcVAykEeEleFgmepNXJTD9KEf K71OeQRUEpZq1c4q0rk1Nalgl6bjYJjuowjtbv/u7IKV8zSARRs29ZHojZjnRWJ28OI3 hrhb66Gv0rYH60twZdFiF9FYAX+ACUXoPWRIWNFRBJLn+xmDs0gTWSLewv+QbJWnwgNL znmQ== X-Received: by 10.221.2.11 with SMTP id ns11mr60733592vcb.3.1356923340538; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:09:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from pluto.boostpro.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com. [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f13sm35336574vep.12.2012.12.30.19.08.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:08:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by pluto.boostpro.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0103B9B0D7C; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:08:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:08:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (darwin) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQls8pOzlc02P0BD/eKEgW+FWMd/Q0KtKQuKkDPhKs1hkXJU6Ur3CAIuHDdgvvenQkFH5OtR X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:69217 Archived-At: on Sun Dec 30 2012, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Dave Abrahams writes: > >> The following function is buggy because of the original bug: >> >> (defun osx-plist-update-exec-path () >> "Update `exec-path' from the PATH environment variable." >> (let ((path (getenv "PATH"))) >> (mapc (lambda (dir) >> (add-to-list 'exec-path dir)) >> (parse-colon-path path))) >> exec-path) > > In which way is this buggy, apart from the fact that it reverses the > path (which has nothing to do with the behaviour of parse-colon-path)? It puts nils in exec-path when PATH contains empty elements. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost