From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Jenkner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:10:42 +0100 Message-ID: <85wqvy42yl.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: <83licfjnny.fsf@gnu.org> <85fw2nq9mi.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356970262 27630 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2012 16:11:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12351@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 31 17:11:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TphxL-0003Hl-46 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:11:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphx6-0002eJ-6z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:11:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57016) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphx0-0002Ws-Ji for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:10:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphwy-0007MG-AU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphwy-0007M2-7b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphy5-0002n7-UI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:12:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:12:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12351 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12351-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12351.135697032010722 (code B ref 12351); Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12351) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2012 16:12:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38186 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphy3-0002ms-7R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mx02.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.2]:4983 helo=mx.inode.at) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphy0-0002mi-As for 12351@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [91.119.206.19] (port=10609 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-02.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphwr-0001wm-4y; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:10:45 +0100 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Tphwp-0000S3-95; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:10:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:11:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (berkeley-unix) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:69241 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 31 2012, Dave Abrahams wrote: > No, that would be wrong. Every OS I know of treats empty elements in > "colon paths" (semicolon paths on Windows) differently from elements > that are "." But not in the PATH environment variable, I'd think in the light of http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_03 Wolfgang