bug#18232: 24.3.92; Filename completion changes the current working directory

[Jan Djärv]

10 aug 2014 kl. 23:08 skrev Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>:

> Jan Djärv wrote:
>> This bug needs to be fixed in the GNULib code, by really use restore_cwd as 
>> it was intended
> 
> Just to clarify, the bug is Emacs's little substitute for Gnulib, not in 
> Gnulib itself.  Perhaps at some point Emacs should just use Gnulib here, but 
> for now it's safer to migrate a bit more of Gnulib into Emacs to avoid this 
> regression.  I reproduced the problem on Fedora 20 by building an Emacs that 
> was crippled to not use readlinkat etc., and installed a patch that worked 
> for me as emacs-24 bzr 117437 (simplified in 117438).

Confirmed OK on OSX as well.

        Jan D.