Re: [gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta] [Bug: 21.5-b27] [CRASH] (file-name-directory "1:")

[Adrian Aichner]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11/1/06, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> But on the other hand (file-name-directory "é:") gives nil.
>
> (file-name-directory (string (multibyte-char-as-unibyte ?é) ?:))
>
>  => "\311:/"
>
> I guess `file-name-directory' is treating "é:" as unibyte, so its
> second char is not `:', so it's not a drive:path.
>
> All in all, perhaps `file-name-directory' should check that the X in
> X: is in the 'A'..'Z' range.

Hi!

CVS XEmacs now returns nil for invalid or unavailable drives.

See
http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2006-November/000036.html

Adrian

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