Ken Brown writes: Hi Ken, > "//" has a special meaning at the beginning of a file name on Cygwin and > MS-Windows; see the comment near the beginning of > search_embedded_absfilename. So I don't think there's a real bug here. > Maybe the expected result of the test should simply be adjusted, as in > the attached patch. Someone who builds on MS-Windows would have to > check this. Thanks for the report. However, your patch seems just to hide the problem in tramp-tests.el. Wouldn't it be better to fix this? What about the appended patch? > Ken Best regards, Michael.