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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>,
	4674-done@debbugs.gnu.org, 4673-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4673: bug#4674: 23.1; UNC paths and file-relative-directory
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:55:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831v5x8zpb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afe5197f0910080654u7e58ab78see88374ff83c5326@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:54:38 +0100
> From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> The function `file-relative-directory' has logic to detect when the
> two given paths are part of two separate directory trees, and to
> return the absolute file name in such cases. That logic does not catch
> the case when the two given paths are UNC paths on different servers.
> For example, on my present network (where there are computers named
> IOBATES and KERES), the form (file-relative-name "//iobates/e/temp"
> "//keres/e/temp") returns "../../../iobates/e/temp", which is not a
> valid relative path to "//iobates/e/temp" from "//keres/e/temp". This
> is therefore a bug.

Thanks, I fixed this now on the Emacs-23 branch.





      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-04 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-08 13:54 bug#4674: 23.1; UNC paths and file-relative-directory Richard Copley
2010-12-04 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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