tramp (2.0.28); dired can't reach root dir

[Eduardo Muñoz]

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2003-01-20 on EMF
Package: tramp (2.0.28)


After some hacking the problem seems to be that the function
tramp-handle-directory-file-name is no clever enough about
directory handling.

I changed the fuction as follows and everything seems
correct: 

(defun tramp-handle-directory-file-name (directory)
  "Like `directory-file-name' for tramp files."
  (with-parsed-tramp-file-name directory nil
    (let ((directory-length-1 (1- (length directory))))
      (save-match-data
        (if (and (eq (aref directory directory-length-1) ?/)
                 (eq (string-match tramp-file-name-regexp directory) 0)
                 (not (string= path "/"))) ; <- Changed line !!
            (substring directory 0 directory-length-1)
          directory)))))

HTH

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Eduardo Muñoz