bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> CC: "dan@dpsutton.com" <dan@dpsutton.com>, "36502@debbugs.gnu.org"
>       <36502@debbugs.gnu.org>, "npostavs@gmail.com" <npostavs@gmail.com>,
>       "monnier@iro.umontreal.ca" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, "schwab@suse.de"
>       <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:39:24 +0000
> 
> On 7/12/2019 4:18 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 7/12/2019 2:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> It is only absolute if what follows ~ is a slash or a name of an
> >> existing user.  I think we should fix the inconsistency in that
> >> direction.
> > 
> > Patch attached.
> 
> Is the patch OK, Eli?  Here it is again, fleshed out with a commit message 
> and test.

Thanks.  The patch looks OK to me, but shouldn't we also make
file-name-absolute-p recognize "~foo" as non-absolute when there's no
user named "foo"?  I thought we agreed this is a discrepancy we don't
want.