From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13033: 24.3.50; regression: read-file-name-internal handles "~" wrong Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:01:10 +0200 Message-ID: <83obieud8p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7FC6A56C048B4EEAAE8EF71367793001@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354302123 12259 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 19:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 20:02:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVql-0004GW-Eo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:02:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVqa-000124-5A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:02:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVqX-00011i-4S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:01:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVqW-0005hX-4m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVqW-0005hS-1J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVsY-0003kB-7k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:04:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:04:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13033 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13033-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13033.135430222614365 (code B ref 13033); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13033) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2012 19:03:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47378 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVsH-0003jd-25 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:03:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:56539) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TeVsD-0003jT-CK for 13033@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MEB00M00E1R9400@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 13033@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:01:24 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MEB00L9BE6BZY50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:01:24 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67681 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:00:32 -0500 > Cc: 13033@debbugs.gnu.org > > Now you say that (read-file-name-internal "~" 'file-exists-p nil) > returns "~/dradams/" and I can't understand where the additional > slash comes from. Windows doesn't support ~FOO specifications, because there's no practical way of getting at the home directory of another user. See expand-file-name ('getpwnam' on w32.c returns NULL for any user name but the current user's). This explains ~/, but where "dradams" comes back after that is probably explained by what the completion code does, being confused by the above.