bug#32304: 27.0.50; tramp-tests issue with double slash

[Michael Albinus]

Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:

Hi Ken,

> "//" has a special meaning at the beginning of a file name on Cygwin and
> MS-Windows; see the comment near the beginning of
> search_embedded_absfilename.  So I don't think there's a real bug here.
> Maybe the expected result of the test should simply be adjusted, as in
> the attached patch.  Someone who builds on MS-Windows would have to
> check this.

Thanks for the report. However, your patch seems just to hide the
problem in tramp-tests.el. Wouldn't it be better to fix this?

What about the appended patch?

> Ken

Best regards, Michael.

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