Re: Shell commands in deleted directories

[Antoine Levitt]

13/02/11 22:13, Eli Zaretskii
>> From: Antoine Levitt <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:02:34 +0100
>> 
>>      if (NILP (Ffile_accessible_directory_p (current_dir)))
>> -      report_file_error ("Setting current directory",
>> -                     Fcons (current_buffer->directory, Qnil));
>> +      {
>> +    /* If current_dir is unreachable (typically, does not exist), use
>> +       ~/ as default */
>> +    current_dir = build_string ("~/");
>> +    current_dir = expand_and_dir_to_file (current_dir, Qnil);
>> +    current_dir = Ffile_name_as_directory (current_dir);
>> +    if (NILP (Ffile_accessible_directory_p (current_dir)))
>> +      {
>> +        report_file_error ("Setting current directory to ~/", Qnil);
>> +      }
>> +      }
>
> And "who is watching the watchdog"?  That is, what if "~" does not
> exist, either?

That's precisely the report_file_error.