Re: info -f does not ignore ./

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:38:05 +0100
> 
> According to POSIX, a "./" in a path is redundant and can be omitted.
> Not so for the info program's -f option

Indeed, it's not.

> which is documented as
>
>       -f, --file=FILENAME
>              specify Info file to visit.

Well, that's a short version of the -f documentation.  The longer
version (in the manual of the stand-alone Info reader) says:

    `--file FILENAME'
    `-f FILENAME'
    Specify a particular Info file to visit.  By default, Info visits
    the file `dir'; if you use this option, Info will start with
    `(FILENAME)Top' as the first file and node.

    If FILENAME is an absolute file name, or begins with `./' or
    `../', Info looks for FILENAME only in the directory of the
    specified FILENAME, and adds the directory of FILENAME to the
    value of `INFOPATH'.  In contrast, if FILENAME is in the form of a
    relative file name, but without the `./' or `../' prefix, Info
    will only look for it in the directories specified in `INFOPATH'.
    In other words, Info does _not_ treat file names which lack `./'
    and `../' prefix as relative to the current directory

> I would classify 1) and 3) as bugs.

No, it's an intended feature.