Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116230: Fix bug #16558 with w32-shell-execute on remote file names.

[Stefan Monnier]

> This API uses the "file association" infrastructure to find the
> application registered to open a file.  Perhaps that infrastructure
> cannot cope with relative file names that have leading directories?

Yuck!

So I guess the best we can do is:

  (if (file-name-absolute-p file) <use file>
    (let ((dir (file-name-directory file)))
      (if (null dir) <use file>
        (if (faccess dir) <use (expand-file-name file)>
          <use file>))))


-- Stefan