From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: 12351@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:10:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wqvy42yl.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wqvy9aqw.fsf@cube.luannocracy.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:11:19 -0500")
On Mon, Dec 31 2012, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> No, that would be wrong. Every OS I know of treats empty elements in
> "colon paths" (semicolon paths on Windows) differently from elements
> that are "."
But not in the PATH environment variable, I'd think in the light of
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_03
Wolfgang
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-31 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 18:58 bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-30 18:52 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-30 19:53 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-30 20:37 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 22:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31 3:08 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 7:14 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:59 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 10:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31 1:40 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-31 3:11 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 6:56 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 7:07 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:58 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 16:10 ` Wolfgang Jenkner [this message]
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