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| From: | Kevin Rodgers |
| Subject: | Re: file-attributes inconsistent w. stat when .. or . symlinked |
| Date: | Tue, 09 Sep 2003 10:48:05 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 |
Richard Stallman wrote:
What's happening is that Emacs discards "/." before it even looks at the file. It always does that. This is not an inconsistancy; on the contrary, Emacs is treating "/." in a consistent way where other programs treat it specially.
[look of surprise]Emacs handles "/." specially, by stripping it. If it was consistent, "/path/to/foo/." would be handled the same way as "/path/to/foo/bar".
That's not to say that what Emacs does is necessarily better. But I don't want to try to change it.
[sigh] -- Kevin Rodgers
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