r-base: crash when trying to save a postscript to a non-existing dir

[Egon Willighagen]

Package: r-base
Version: 2.1.1-1
Severity: normal


Hi,

attempting to save a postscript to a non-existing directory makes R crash.

The output:

egonw at chemo14: ~/tmp/r-bug $ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   2 egonw debuser 4096 2005-11-23 12:55 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 egonw debuser 4096 2005-11-23 12:55 ..
egonw at chemo14: ~/tmp/r-bug $ R

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> postscript(file="nondir/some.eps")
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x000000000096df50 ***
Aborted

Egon


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