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Re: Don't concat directories to file names
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Don't concat directories to file names |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:27:38 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I'm not going to enter an OS flamewar, but in my younger days I hacked
> VAX/VMS, where a filename and a directory were clearly distinct :)
Emacs follows this idea as well. I.e. a directory is a file, and it has two
names: one to treat it as a filem and another to treat it as a directory.
So /usr is a directory whose file name is "/usr" and directory name is
"/usr/", see file-name-as-directory and directory-file-name.
Unider Unix, the trailing slash often makes no difference, so people tend to
forget about the distinction, but occasionally the difference is significant.
Stefan
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, (continued)
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Kai Grossjohann, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/22
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/25