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bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-inse
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Ken Brown |
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bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p |
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Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:18:11 +0000 |
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On 7/12/2019 2:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dan@dpsutton.com, npostavs@gmail.com,
>> 36502@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>> schwab@suse.de
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:36:38 -0400
>>
>> > (let ((default-directory "~foo"))
>> > (expand-file-name "bar"))
>> > => "~foo/~foo/bar"
>>
>> That is not right, but I think "~foo/bar" would be right.
>
> No, I think this should yield an absolute file name starting with a
> slash (on Posix systems).
>
>> > Part of what's confusing here is that file-name-absolute-p returns
>> > t on file names starting with "~", even though its doc string
>> > explicitly states that such a file name is not absolute.
>>
>> This contradiction is not good. But I would like to point out
>> that, in a certain sesne, a name starting with ~ is absolute.
>> It is not relative to the current directory.
>
> It is only absolute if what follows ~ is a slash or a name of an
> existing user. I think we should fix the inconsistency in that
> direction.
Patch attached.
Ken
fix_tilde.patch
Description: fix_tilde.patch
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, (continued)
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/07
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/10
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/11
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/12
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p,
Ken Brown <=
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/15
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Paul Eggert, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/21
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/21
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/21
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Paul Eggert, 2019/07/24