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: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:58:23 +0300 Message-ID: References: <86wsxxvief.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <85odj3ahvr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182805117 29687 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 20:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 22:58:36 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 1I2vdp-0007AY-Te for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:58:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vdp-0003G2-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vdl-0003ED-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vdk-0003Do-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vdk-0003Dk-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2vdi-0007Xn-7A; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-162-148.inter.net.il [80.230.162.148]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id HBQ39974 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:58:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85odj3ahvr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:20 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:73862 Archived-At: > Cc: "Juanma Barranquero" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:20 +0200 > > > Directories _are_ files on MSDOS, they are just special files, in that > > some file I/O functions fail for them. > > I seem to remember that the root directory on a disk is not a file. I think in later versions it was a file.