Subject: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:30:46 +0200

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 16:24, Jason Rumney <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This is a general url-parsing function, changing this to not return
> the leading / on the file portion of the url will break every other user
> of this function.

Only the ones that incorrectly assume that the slash is part of the
path. The ones that use expand-file-name, as Kevin pointed out, will
continue to work.

> This needs to be done for file URLs only

Perhaps, but for non-file URLs, the slash isn't part of the path
either. That's what the RFCs say.

> and be system-dependent.

That's a hack.

    Juanma