Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp

[Jason Rumney]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>    I vaguely remember that it was hard to find a correct behavior
>    for expand-file-name when its second argument is "/", so perhaps
>    this bug is some side effect of what was decided long ago to do
>    in such cases.
>
> Jason suggested (expand-file-name "/").  I _guess_ from your comments
> above that this does not work either.

I'm not sure what Eli meant by his comment (maybe the DOS
implementation is different), but on Windows, "/" expands as expected to
the root of the current drive.