Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil

From: Wolfgang Jenkner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:10:42 +0100

On Mon, Dec 31 2012, Dave Abrahams wrote:

> No, that would be wrong.  Every OS I know of treats empty elements in
> "colon paths" (semicolon paths on Windows) differently from elements
> that are "."

But not in the PATH environment variable, I'd think in the light of

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_03

Wolfgang