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authorNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-11-01 19:39:34 -0400
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-11-01 19:39:34 -0400
commitdc0a25c2f9b44c697194bd0ec21c942125160544 (patch)
treeccd50b1ba13d8f684253b3e4cbae12f891a7c5bc
parent8453423c7c5e1886a301fb61c4077650f59e670b (diff)
downloademacs-dc0a25c2f9b44c697194bd0ec21c942125160544.tar.gz
Give a more sensible message if file-attributes fails (Bug#29070)
* lisp/server.el (server-ensure-safe-dir): Don't claim the directory is a file if we fail to get anything from `file-attributes'.
-rw-r--r--lisp/server.el6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/server.el b/lisp/server.el
index 4c591a5ee7c..0e225f723ea 100644
--- a/lisp/server.el
+++ b/lisp/server.el
@@ -527,8 +527,10 @@ Creates the directory if necessary and makes sure:
(w32 (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
(unsafe (cond
((not (eq t (car attrs)))
- (format "it is a %s" (if (stringp (car attrs))
- "symlink" "file")))
+ (if (null attrs) "its attributes can't be checked"
+ (format "it is a %s"
+ (if (stringp (car attrs))
+ "symlink" "file"))))
((and w32 (zerop uid)) ; on FAT32?
(display-warning
'server