Re: 900276502f..: Paul Eggert 2018-11-13 Act like POSIX sh if $HOME is relative

[Óscar Fuentes]

"João Távora" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've only now caught up with the discussion of bug#33255.  Are the
> consequences of interpreting the string "c:" on Windows as a relative
> file name understood?
>
> With HOME="z:", it used to be that (expand-file-name "~/blabla")
> returned "z:/blabla" but now it returns
> "z:/source/emacs/emacs/src/z:/blabla", which is not a valid Windows
> pathname.

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I was about to post a reply but Yuri already answered, so I'll only add
a pointer to an official reference about this topic:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats