From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Behavior of directory-files on Windows Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:06:39 +0200 Message-ID: <83aa7b4a1s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87liqw3116.fsf@gmail.com> <83r50o439k.fsf@gnu.org> <878vmw6vs6.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322816896 27473 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2011 09:08:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 10:08:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWP6H-0005B2-FB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:08:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWP6F-0006td-Q0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50543) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWP6A-0006qq-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWP69-0005ZD-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35389) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWP68-0005Z8-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:08:00 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LVK00500JSD5J00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:07:46 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.120.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LVK00410K0XDKF0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:07:46 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878vmw6vs6.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146418 Archived-At: > From: Thierry Volpiatto > Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:34:17 +0100 > > one is able to do: (find-file "c:/.") but when he list directory > this file ("c:/.") is not present. That's because "c:/." is canonicalized to "c:/" before passing it to the appropriate system APIs. IOW, the above is not a proof that "." should exist; every system does such canonicalization at some point.