Re: 23.0.60; Assuming errstring unibyte is incorrect and leads to Emacs crashes

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:13:06 +0900
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > +   if (! EQ (Faref (errstring, make_number (1)), make_number ('/')))
> > +     {
> > +       int c;
> > +
> > +       str = (char *) SDATA (errstring);
> > +       c = STRING_CHAR (str, 0);
> > +       Faset (errstring, 0, make_number (DOWNCASE (c)));
> > +     }

> Can we explain in a comment what is special about a slash as the
> second character of the error message?

We should, but I don't know the reason.  By grepping
ChangeLog files, I found this item:

1991-02-21  Richard Stallman  (address@hidden)

        * fileio.c (report_file_error): Don't downcase "I/O".

Is this the reason?

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Kenichi Handa
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