bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:52:24 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
wrote: 

SM> It's a cleaner workaround, but I'd rather we come up with an actual fix.
SM> Do you think you can try to make a patch that adds (in files.el) a new
SM> function meant to turn an Elisp file name into an OS file name or return
SM> nil if the file can't be accessed by OS primitives?  This function would
SM> just delegate its work to the file-name-handler if any, and otherwise
SM> just return its argument unchanged.

Would any C-facing code, then, need to apply this function before
passing a filename to the OS?  Or do you think this function belongs in
every package, which is a much bigger list of potential fixes?

Ted