Subject: bug#32304: 27.0.50; tramp-tests issue with double slash

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:07:29 -0400

On 7/31/2018 4:57 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> The question is, whether Tramp should follow this. It does
> 
> (substitute-in-file-name "/ssh::/a///b") => "/b"

This seems right to me.  After all, the repeated slash is not at the 
beginning of the (total) file name.

> Maybe, it shall return on Cygwin and MS-Windows
> 
> (substitute-in-file-name "/ssh::/a///b") => "//b"

I can't think of any situation where this would be useful.

Ken