Re: Tramp, "[]" in file names, and file-expand-wildcards

[Stefan Monnier]

> In file-expand-wildcards you can see that file-name-directory is
> called, and it seems the function assumes that, for all X, if
> (file-name-directory X) == X, then X does not contain "[]".

Yes, basically, it expects that applying file-name-directory repeatedly
will sooner or later get down to "/".
Why does Tramp make (file-name-directory "/[rpc/foo]") == "/[rcp/foo]"
rather than "/" ?


        Stefan