bug#16851: 24.3.50; file-truename removes trailing / on remote hosts

[Michael Albinus]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1. Open dired on a remote host
>> 2. eval (file-truename default-directory)
>>
>> The trailing / is gone.
>
> I don't think this is a bug as file-truename operates on file names, but
> default-directory is a directory (so use directory-file-name first, and
> file-name-as-directory afterwards).

I tend to agree that this is not a bug. OTOH, it is easy to change Tramp
to behave like `file-truename' on local file names, so I've changed it.

> Andreas.

Best regards, Michael.