bug#15866: Gnutls elisp code doesn't properly check for file existence

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Wouldn't a solution here be to introduce a variable like
>> `inhibit-file-handlers' that would really inhibit all Lisp-level file
>> handlers?
>
> How is that different from binding file-name-handler-alist to nil?

I guess it isn't.  Wouldn't that solve this problem?  The patch
presented did some stuff with

(if (find-file-name-handler f 'expand-file-name)
  ...

but perhaps just binding that variable to nil unconditionally would be
the right thing here?

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