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$PATH with double slashes parsing bug

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Message #10 received at 5134-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

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.

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