GNU bug report logs - #57102
29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

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Message #65 received at 57102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 57102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:27:59 +0000

>> One small step in the right direction would be to make sure that:
>>
>>    (equal (file-name-split "/foo")
>>           (file-name-split "//foo"))
>
> There's the Posix peculiarity that /abc and //abc are potentially 
> distinct, but ///abc should be equivalent to /abc if I understood it 
> right.
>

Indeed, POSIX says that "A pathname that begins with two successive 
<slash> characters may be interpreted in an implementation-defined manner, 
although more than two leading <slash> characters shall be treated as a 
single <slash> character."
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