bug#16406: load prefers directories rather than searching load-path

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: 16406@debbugs.gnu.org,  rgm@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:12:49 -0400
> 
> > OK.  But isn't the "and file-ex" test unnecessary?  It wasn't required
> > for file-exists-p, so why is it for file-regular-p?
> 
> Indeed, not required. It's just leftover confusion.
> 
> >From 72ac37f50068af39aebc200b812cb901e0dcd176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:51:38 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH v4] Don't --load directories
> 
> * lisp/startup.el (command-line-1): Only pass expanded FILENAME argument
> of --load when it refers to a normal file, since `load' doesn't handle
> directories (Bug #16406).
> ---
>  lisp/startup.el | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
> index fcdc376..d5225bd 100644
> --- a/lisp/startup.el
> +++ b/lisp/startup.el
> @@ -2393,7 +2393,7 @@ command-line-1
>                              ;; Take file from default dir if it exists there;
>                              ;; otherwise let `load' search for it.
>                              (file-ex (expand-file-name file)))
> -                       (when (file-exists-p file-ex)
> +                       (when (file-regular-p file-ex)
>                           (setq file file-ex))
>                         (load file nil t)))
>  
> -- 
> 2.9.3

Thanks, LGTM.