Thank you Eli!

On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 15:15, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:39:17 +0200
> > Cc: 66542@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > You are right (of course :)
> > So I have attached another patch which only strips the file name
> (applies file-name-directory) if the file
> > is not a directory.
> >
> > If the file is not a directory, then that stripped name should also be
> returned by the function, i.e. in the
> > 'cond`, root should be set to the stripped file name. Therefore, the
> patched version simply 'checks
> > and sets' the file name first inside the setq.
> >
> > Also, now we can remove the check in the first clause of the 'if' (of
> 'setq try'), because 'file' is
> > guaranteed to be a directory name, and the existence of the directory
> name is already checked by
> > the 'file-exists-p'.
> >
> > This change does not affect other parts of the function (except that it
> speeds it up a little, because it
> > excludes the cycles, that only strip the file names in case file is a
> 'real' file.
> > Indeed, the function should only check for 'parent directories' (not
> files).
>
> Thanks, installed on master, and closing the bug.
>