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bug#11890: 24.1; (wrong-type-argument processp nil) in `shell-mode'
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#11890: 24.1; (wrong-type-argument processp nil) in `shell-mode' |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:13:02 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Do you have a recipe from -Q? From the backtrace included, it kinda
>> looked like the bug was triggered from your own code.
>
> No, and it should not matter. The command should not just barf with
> a wrong-type error msg.
>
> As the bug report says:
>
> Clearly, this code in shell.el is not tolerant of there being no process:
>
> (file-name-nondirectory
> (car (process-command (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))))
>
> I imagine that it should be, or rather that it should perhaps raise an
> error with a more suitable message.
There are many functions that may fail if called with invalid parameters
or in invalid buffers. Emacs does not attempt to cover them all with
user-level error messages.
If you don't have a recipe here, I don't see what how to proceed
further, and I'm closing this bug report.
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