Re: RMAIL causes Emacs abort

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

> Today's CVS snapshot, Tue, 2003 Aug 12  14:28 UTC
> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.33 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
> started with
>
>     /usr/local/bin/emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)'
>
> When both /var/mail/bob and ~/RMAIL are zero length files, 
> the command 
>
>    M-x rmail
>
> causes Emacs to abort.  The same occurs when either /var/mail/bob or
> ~/RMAIL have content.
>
> However, when /var/mail/bob is a zero length file, 
>         when a full ~/RMAIL is first found with `M-x find-file-literally' and 
>         when rmail is run with a prefix command, `C-u M-x rmail'
>   then Emacs does not abort and I can read my RMAIL.
>
> Here is the GDB backtrace from the first situation, 
> starting Emacs with both /var/mail/bob and ~/RMAIL as zero length files.
> The command was  `M-x rmail':
>  
...

I will take a look at this problem.

-pmr