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

[Ken Brown]

On 7/21/2019 10:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>, "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>
>> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 19:32:30 -0700
>>
>> My impression from looking at uses of file-name-absolute-p
>> is that changing it to return nil here would improve correctness of the 
>> callers,
>> though there would be a performance cost for this case of course.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> So Ken, please push your changes, and I would appreciate if you could
> also make the change in file-name-absolute-p (as a separate change),
> if you have time.

Patch attached.  I didn't add a NEWS entry.  Do you think this requires one?

Ken

0001-Fix-file-name-absolute-p-for-names-starting-with.patch
Description: 0001-Fix-file-name-absolute-p-for-names-starting-with.patch