bug#45540: 27.1; symbolic links crash dired

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2018@jovi.net> writes:
>
>> Here's a fix.  I did NOT check this carefully.
>> Dired crashes when (< (length file-name) (length root))
>
> The patch looks reasonable -- but do you have a test case that
> reproduces this bug (starting from "emacs -Q") so that we can verify the
> bug and the fix?

I tried various link scenarios to come up with a case where file-name
was shorter than root, and I was unable to.  Do you have a test case for
such a setup?

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