Subject: Re: bug#3836: (file-exists-p "//.gz") needs seven seconds
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Christoph Conrad <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:59:15 +0300

> From: "Christoph Conrad" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:03:04 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> 1) emacs -Q
> 2) M-: (file-exists-p "//.gz") <RET>
> 
> On my computer this needs several seconds to come back. The file does
> NOT exist.

That's not an Emacs problem: a file whose name begins with two slashes
or two backslashes is a UNC-style file name, and your Windows computer
looks it up on the network.  That eventually times out, but can take a
lot of time until it does.

I'm closing this bug report.