On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:05 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Did you try this on some system where "//tmp" is a valid file name, > which is different from "/tmp"? > I have never dealt with such files. My brief attempt just to try creating such a file failed: km²~/temp/:> touch '//abc' touch: cannot touch `//abc': Permission denied km²~/temp/:> touch '\/\/abc' touch: cannot touch `\\/\\/abc': No such file or directory Can you show how to recreate the issue that you are thinking? Or can you try recreating the problem on your system with this patch? Or, should this patch anyways go in the master, and we let the emacs-devel give us feedback if this results in anything unexpected? I have used this patch in my config for few years now without any issue. -- Kaushal Modi