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: bug#5134: $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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