GNU bug report logs - #18891
Doesn't handle pwd = /C: very well

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:04:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 24.5

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #45 received at 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#18891: Doesn't handle pwd = /C: very well
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:53:26 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:45:36 -0500
> Cc: 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 
> PS this makes me think, what happens if the local file name happens to
> match a remote host that does exist...

I think the file should match a remote host prefixed with a protocol
supported by Tramp, not just the host name, for this issue to pop up.

> If as you say the design prefers remote hosts over local ones, that
> seems like a bad design to me.

I think the idea is that such files are very rare, and using the /:
prefix to quote them is the fire escape.
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