From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86r6o91zmd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87k5ty66nq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <86wsxxvief.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182782029 746 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 14:33:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 16:33:47 2007 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 4.50) id 1I2pdQ-0002JT-Ej for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2pdP-0001aL-T4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2pdM-0001XX-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2pdK-0001VP-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2pdK-0001VM-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts16.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4] helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2pdJ-0006gl-IN; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([74.12.206.238]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070625143336.RCAL1673.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4998280B0; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:33:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon\, 25 Jun 2007 11\:59\:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:73822 Archived-At: > Well, in fact I said that the function does not return a directory, > and that's true, it returns a path. No: a path is a list of directories (as in the PATH, MANPATH EMACSLOADPATH, etc...). What it returns is a file name. The file referenced may be of directory kind (or symlink kind, or normal file kind, or even device kind), but it's still a file name. Stefan