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bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `direc
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???) |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:07:33 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <13113@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:53:41 -0800
>
> > (and auto-save-list-file-prefix (file-directory-p
> > (file-name-directory
> > auto-save-list-file-prefix))
> ...
> > which is a fragment from menu-bar.el:
> >
> > (bindings--define-key menu [recover-session]
> > '(menu-item "Recover Crashed Session" recover-session
> > :enable
> > (and auto-save-list-file-prefix
> ...
> > > And why that should raise this error, and what this error means, I
> > > also have no idea. This means nothing to me - what is going on
> > > here?
> >
> > My crystal ball says that directory traversal functions were invoked
> > recursively, somehow. This is not supported on Windows, or at least
> > that's my reading of the code.
>
> Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by directory traversal functions
> being
> invoked recursively?
Well, the above snippet calls directory-files later on, which is the
call that barfed. This is one API that invokes directory traversal --
a function that reads and returns all the file names in a directory.
Another example is directory-files-and-attributes. Also, any
file-name completion needs to traverse a directory. If some Lisp form
in the call stack also called one of these functions, you could see
this "no error" error, according to my reading of the code.
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Drew Adams, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Drew Adams, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Drew Adams, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Drew Adams, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Drew Adams, 2012/12/07
- bug#13113: 24.3.50; `x-create-frames' raises error trying to eval `directory-files' (???), Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/07