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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 33255@debbugs.gnu.org, immerrr again <immerrr@gmail.com>,
	Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa1b9f5e-ef1a-6cbb-89f3-377d50299de2@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pizhu1as1b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Glenn Morris wrote:
> So far all I see from POSIX is that it doesn't say anything about whether HOME is absolute or not.

By not saying anything POSIX gives permission to the application to set HOME to 
a relative name. When POSIX intends the requirement that an environment 
variable's value must be absolute (e.g., PWD), it says so. When it doesn't 
intend such a requirement (e.g., HOME, PATH, SHELL, TMPDIR) it says nothing.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-23 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-04 10:54 bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative immerrr again
2018-11-04 12:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-11-05  0:58   ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-13 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-13 20:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 18:10   ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-14 18:17     ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-14 19:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-20 19:11         ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-20 19:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-20 19:08       ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-20 20:44         ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-22 18:25           ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-23 20:22             ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-11-27  5:42               ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-27 18:11                 ` Paul Eggert

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