GNU bug report logs - #5134
$PATH with double slashes parsing bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastien Mondet <sebastien.mondet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:55:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

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From: Sebastien Mondet <sebastien.mondet <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: $PATH with double slashes parsing bug
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:53:21 +0100

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Hi,

I discovered this strange behavior of eshell in emacs 23.1.1 (on MacOSX and
Debian Lenny, both built from source, launched with '-q').

It seems that the presence of two slashes ("//") in a path breaks the
search:

Example:

~ $ export PATH=/usr//bin
~ $ which m4
which: no m4 in (/usr//bin)
~ $ export PATH=/usr/bin
~ $ which m4
/usr/bin/m4
~ $


I mailed this to johnw <at> gnu.org (maintainer of eshell) who told me that it
seems to be an Emacs issue.

Cheers,

Sebastien Mondet
http://seb.mondet.org

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Sebastien Mondet <sebastien.mondet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5134-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: $PATH with double slashes parsing bug
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:06:28 -0500

> I discovered this strange behavior of eshell in emacs 23.1.1 (on MacOSX and
> Debian Lenny, both built from source, launched with '-q').
>
> It seems that the presence of two slashes ("//") in a path breaks the
> search:
>
> Example:
>
> ~ $ export PATH=/usr//bin
> ~ $ which m4
> which: no m4 in (/usr//bin)
> ~ $ export PATH=/usr/bin
> ~ $ which m4
> /usr/bin/m4
> ~ $

I can reproduce it in the Emacs 23.1 release.  The bug already seems to
be fixed in the repository (to be 23.2).  Thanks for the bug report,
though.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:24:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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