Re: `rename-file' with leading spaces in filename

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:52:53 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>  > Can you determine which primitive concludes that it exists
>  > and see what arguments it got?
>  >
> 
> The FindFirstFile call in
> 
> fh = FindFirstFile (name, &wfd);
> 
> around line 2430 in w32.c

which is part of the MS-Windows port's emulation of `stat'.

> finds "c:/foo" due to the fact that
> FindFirstFile is allowed to return a file whose short filename matches
> the parameter "name" (provided - as I suspect - it does not find a file
> whose long filename matches "name").

Yes, FindFirstFile is allowed to find short aliases.