Subject: Re: bug#24057: 25.1.50; ffap interprets comments beginning with "//" as file path

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:02:36 -0400

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>  Did you try this on some system where "//tmp" is a valid file name,
>>  which is different from "/tmp"?
> You need to be on a system that supports that.  Windows is one of
> them; not sure if there are any others left nowadays.

How does it work?

C:\Users\npostavs>echo foo > //tmp
The specified path is invalid.

In Emacs:

Saving file //tmp...
Directory `//' does not exist; create? (y or n) y
basic-save-buffer-2: //: no such directory

This is on a newly-upgraded-to-Windows-10 box, Emacs 24.5