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- From: rolf@green.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de (Rolf Schreiber)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
- Subject: No shell-commands in a three-letter-subdir
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:56:13 -0500
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Lines: 35
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <9301250952.AA11608@green.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>
-
- A strange bug happens to me since switching to emacs-18.59:
-
- Machine: IBM RS-6000
- Emacs: 18.59 compiled without changes, no site-init.el
-
- While in my home-dir I do:
-
- emacs -q
-
- Then I hit "M-x cd RET c++ RET RET" and "M-x compile RET RET"
- In the compilation-window appears:
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- cd /usr/lhome/rolf/c++/
- make -k
-
- Compilation unknown (core dumped) at Tue Jan 19 16:58:32
-
- This error occurs in any other subdirectory that has a length of three
- letters (e.g. ~/tex/ ~/c/c/ ~/pls) but not in subdirectories with less
- or more than three letters (e.g. ~/matlab ~/c ~/tex/letters). And it
- occurs to any shell command I try to invoke from a "three-letter"
- directory. (e.g "M-! ls RET" brings a (Shell command completed with no
- output) and dumps a core to this directory).
-
- And it's even more complicated:
-
- my home-directory /home/rolf is a link to /usr/lhome/rolf
- where /home itself is mounted from a remote machine.
- I can't reproduce the error either in directories of the form
- /usr/lhome/abcd/abc nor in /home/abcd/abc
-
- Can you help me to find out the problem?
-
- Rolf
-
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