From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M\. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work. Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1131806415.753652.8779.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> References: <20051112104720.GK11234@boetes.org> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131807290 18814 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2005 14:54:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 15:54:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EawmA-0007q0-4Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:54:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eawm9-0001FO-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EawYQ-0007F9-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:40:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EawYM-0007DE-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:40:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EawYM-0007D3-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.238.164.5] (helo=elvira.ekonomikum.uu.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EawYM-0006im-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: by elvira.ekonomikum.uu.se (Postfix, from userid 204) id 3B90A1E2; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:25 +0100 (MEZ) Original-Received: from elvira.ekonomikum.uu.se(127.0.0.1) by elvira.ekonomikum.uu.se via virus-scan id s26701; Sat, 12 Nov 05 15:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE [130.238.19.25]) by elvira.ekonomikum.uu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883781D8; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:16 +0100 (MEZ) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781D544003; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Psilocybe [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06219-03-9; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from Update.UU.SE (Lem.Update.UU.SE [130.238.19.73]) by Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE (Postfix) with SMTP id D3E6044002; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 8780 invoked by uid 30270); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:40:15 -0000 Original-To: Han Boetes In-reply-to: <20051112104720.GK11234@boetes.org> (message from Han Boetes on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:46:58 +0059) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45819 Archived-At: If you try to open /tmp//foo emacs will try to open /foo, of course this is a great feature, but it forgets that /tmp//foo is a valid notation of /tmp/foo. Not remebering various standards exactly on the topic, but I don't recall any guarante that /tmp//foo must be the same as /tmp/foo. As for the side-effect behaviour you suggest, I think it would confuse the hell out of me aleast...