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bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el
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Noam Postavsky |
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bug#23743: 24.5; Opening output file: invalid argument, .../foo-<-4-n.el |
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Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:15:07 -0400 |
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>
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>> Apparently it doesn't like `<' in a file name?
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> Yes, Windows doesn't allow that.
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>> If so, and if that is "normal", then the user should get a much
>> better error message than this.
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> 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?