Re: Behavior of directory-files on Windows

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 15:39:41 +0100
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 13:54, Thierry Volpiatto
>> <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > If I do:
>> > (directory-files "c:/")
>> > The "c:/." and "c:/.." candidates are omitted
>> 
>> Assuming C:/ is really the root of your Windows' installation drive,
>> it does not have the . and .. entries (try doing "dir /a:" in C:\ and
>> in a subdirectory). So they are not omitted, they just are not there.
>
> Right.  DJGPP, the development environment used to build the DOS port
> of Emacs, actually _invents_ these two entries in the root of each
> drive, to avoid the unpleasant surprises like the one Thierry just
> hit.

So that would make sense to add these two entries to output of 
`directory-files', after all, one is able to do:
(find-file "c:/.") but when he list directory this file ("c:/.") is not
present.


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