emacs UI hang: viewing a thread where msg has .tgz attachment with symlink to ..

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

Thanks for finding the root cause (hopefully!).

-Sanjoy

David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>>
>>> It would be a big help if you could share a message that causes the
>>> problem.
>>
>> I've just managed to make an example that triggers the problem but that
>> isn't 14MB (the size of the original msg).  I'm attaching the message
>> below.  It contains, as an attachment, a 20KB .tgz file.
>
> Thanks very much for the test case. I've reported an upstream bug in
> emacs; we'll have to see what the emacs devs think about it.
>
> Here is a link to the bug report:
>
>      http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18063