From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:19 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <0c2e43c3-82ec-5783-391d-e79549c5c1db@cs.ucla.edu> <106aab5d-7910-3021-03a1-e4e5d910d831@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543004473 25317 195.159.176.226 (23 Nov 2018 20:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:21:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 Cc: 33255@debbugs.gnu.org, immerrr again , Noam Postavsky To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 21:21:09 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHwp-0006Qx-LK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:21:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHyw-0002nD-5B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHyl-0002mx-D7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHyi-0006ZU-A4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHyh-0006XT-9l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHyg-0007ar-Cu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:23:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33255 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33255-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33255.154300455129137 (code B ref 33255); Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33255) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Nov 2018 20:22:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44596 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHyA-0007Zs-QF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:22:31 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:47114) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQHy6-0007Zd-Kf for 33255@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4DA160198; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Sm5YPU1ny_Jq; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B996B160162; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:19 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id CpfsY80aZlLj; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86D781600DE; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:22:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152722 Archived-At: 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.