Re: spam-get-ifile-database-parameter returns inappropriate value

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, dmaze@MIT.EDU wrote:
> `spam-get-ifile-database-parameter' looks at
> spam-ifile-database-path, and if it's non-nil, returns a string
> command-line parameter for ifile that corresponds to this.  This is
> fine, except that if returns "" if the variable isn't set, and Emacs
> dutifully passes that on as a parameter to ifile.  So you get 'ifile
> -q -c ""', ifile tries to read "" as a file, and exits immediately
> rather than reading the message from stdin.  It doesn't look like
> ifile has a magic filename for "read the message from stdin", and I
> don't know if call-process-* will drop nil arguments (I'd guess it
> won't, though).  This means the call to call-process-region there
> needs to be a bit trickier to support a variable number of
> arguments...

I just did an if statement there instead.  I didn't expect ifile to
try to read an empty filename - serves me right for only testing the
new parameter, not retroactively testing the old stuff.

Thanks for the catch.

Ted