Re: Dired 7.5 bug: it core-dumps when dired-apropos is run
sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Sun, 2 Oct 1994 19:05:27 +0200
Hi Chipsy,
On Sat, 01 Oct 94 you wrote:
> Well, the bug is pretty obvious once you look at it, and it's not in
> XEmacs. dired-apropos feeds something pretty bizarre into
> with-output-to-temp-buffer as the name of the temporary buffer.
Yep. This has been fixed. I hacked in dired-help a bit two nights
ago and fixed a few other bugaboos too.
> As I said, out here, the name shows up on the modeline, XEmacs doesn't
> crash. So I can't say if XEmacs should be made safer somewhere.
> Off-hand, I can't say, especially since the C code of
> with-output-to-temp-buffer is identical to that of FSFmacs 19.25.
XEmacs shouldn't crash, but it only seemed to crash on some platforms.
Putting weird things on the modeline is OK. Crashing is not. It's
probably not worth worrying more about this.
--sandy