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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: file-exists-p on empty string |
| Date: | Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:53:59 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> (file-exists-p "")
> ==> t
Elisp doesn't handle file names quite like POSIX, indeed.
I don't think we can change the above behavior without introducing other
odd behaviors. E.g. currently (file-name-nondirectory "/a/b/") return "",
which is consistent with the above behavior.
Stefan
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