bug#18891: Doesn't handle pwd = /C: very well

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> if a directory name happens to match a tramp pattern, as "/C:"
>> presumably does, how about first checking if a local directory literally
>> named that exists, before invoking a remote handler?
>
> That's probably something Emacs should do _before_ invoking the
> handler, no?  I mean, the decision whether to let the handler do this
> job is outside the scope of the handler.

That's what I meant, I think...