bug#61073: ‘spawn’ crashes when passed a non-file port

Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> skribis:

> Here’s an example:
>
> $ ./meta/guile
> GNU Guile 3.0.9
> Copyright (C) 1995-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
> This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
>
> Enter `,help' for help.
> scheme@(guile-user)> (with-error-to-port (%make-void-port "w") (lambda () (spawn "date" (list "date"))))
> Segmentation fault
>
> This is due to the careless use of ‘SCM_FPORT_FDES’ there.

Fixed in 5b42f8c154906584455a4989038406c88b723cb0.

Ludo’.
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