Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string

[Andreas Schwab]

"Järneström Jonas" <erajonj@ki.ericsson.se> writes:

|> In GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, X toolkit)
|>  of Fri Mar  3 2000 on iris
|> configured using `configure  --with-gcc --with-pop --with-x-toolkit=lucid 
--bindir=/usr/local/bin --libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec'
|> 
|> (file-readable-p "") returns t.
|> Wouldnt nil be more appropriate since there is no filename to visit
|> (or whatever) despite the returning t?
|> Same behavior for its peers like file-exists-p an so on...

Emacs has (expand-file-name "") == (expand-file-name "."), so they are
operating on default-directory.

Andreas.

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