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: Removing (most of) directory-sep-char Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:38:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275640928 23974 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2010 08:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 04 10:42:06 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKSTe-0000aO-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:42:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40560 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OKSTc-0004YW-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34963 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OKSQT-0003Ex-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OKSQS-00059x-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59917) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OKSQR-00059r-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKSQO-0005Op-8j; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:38:44 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:06:15 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:125496 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:06:15 +0200 > > The following patch moves `directory-sep-char' from C to lisp, and > removes all references to it from C code, in effect turning the var > into a noop. > > It's OK to commit it? It's fine with me, thanks. > Eli, could this cause any trouble with the MS-DOS port? No. The MS-DOS port never really supported backslashes except as an accident. It is much more radical than the Windows port in using forward slashes (and all the other Posix features). It even converts all file names in PATH to use forward slashes, and passes that to subprocesses. See msdos.c.