Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Unless there's a real performance advantage (which I fail to see), I'd
>> rather go the other way and be more permissive and fix default-directory
>> so it also works correctly when it doesn't have a trailing slash.
> Yes.  I don't remember how exactly much, but I've spent an inordinate amount
> of time finding out that default-directory needs a trailing slash, when
> working on xref.

I encourage you to fix it.  AFAIK the process.c code is the only one
that relies on the trailing slash.

I think the current handling of default-directory in process.c (where
anything after the last slash is ignored) is just a bug since it's
inconsistent with other uses (e.g. (let ((default-directory "/a/b"))
(expand-file-name "c")) returns "/a/b/c" as you'd expect and not "/a/c"
as process.c understands it).


        Stefan