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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:09:36 -0500
> 
> >   (file-name-directory "http://foo.com/wherever/index.html";)
> >     => "http://foo.com/wherever/";
> >   (file-name-absolute-p "http://foo.com/wherever/index.html";)
> >     => nil
> 
> That look reasonable (and didn't involve any remote connection or any
> such problem).

How is the 2nd one reasonable?  It means we will pass it through
expand-file-name, which gives the following BS:

  (expand-file-name "http://foo.com/wherever/index.html";)
    => "d:/gnu/bzr/emacs/trunk/http:/foo.com/wherever/index.html"

> And faccess("http://foo.com/wherever/";) should presumably tell you that
> dir doesn't exist.  So it behaves just as well as the current code.

By sheer luck, if you ask me.

> >> - we don't check file-name-handlers
> > Why is that a good idea?  If a file name has a handler, any success in
> > faccess etc. can only be a (rare) coincidence.
> 
> The connection between the core problem of detecting the case of
> (w32-shell-execute "dir/file") and the check of file-name-handlers is
> really non-obvious.

If DOCUMENT doesn't have file handlers, it is more likely to be a
local file or directory.

> >> - we only check (faccess dir) rather than (faccess file), and only if
> >> there's a "dir".
> > What is "dir" here?
> 
> See my sample code: (file-name-directory file)
> 
> >> - we don't bother with any of it if the file is already absolute.
> > See above: deciding whether it is absolute is not easy.
> 
> I think we only need to use w32's own notion of "absolute".  But using
> file-name-absolute-p should work as well.

I don't see how your proposal is simpler than what's already there, or
better, sorry.