Re: no notification about -u failure

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:
 >     No message seen, not even in *Messages*, that -u wasn't being 
used right.
 >     $ emacs -nw --no-site-file -u /
 >     $ emacs -nw --no-site-file -q -u /
 >     $ emacs -nw --no-site-file -q -u nurdsburg /
...
 > Most of this was fixed already in the current devel version.
 > I will fix the rest.

Ah, that bug wasn't squashed, because (file-directory-p (concat "~" "/"))
is true.

Should the test also simply check that (eq (string-to-char 
init-file-user) ?/)
is false, or are there other problematic user names?  Is "" legal?  What 
about
":" et al. on VMS?

,----[ C-h f file-name-directory RET ]
| file-name-directory is a built-in function.
| (file-name-directory FILENAME)
|
| Return the directory component in file name FILENAME.
| Return nil if FILENAME does not include a directory.
| Otherwise return a directory spec.
| Given a Unix syntax file name, returns a string ending in slash;
| on VMS, perhaps instead a string ending in `:', `]' or `>'.
`----

-- 
Kevin Rodgers