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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2013-08-20 17:49:09 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2013-08-20 17:49:09 +0300 |
| commit | 9f0809d4ab26a4376ecce03909d35db80da40023 (patch) | |
| tree | 1fbb11beed4189b2ca873f918f1162b89a383355 /doc | |
| parent | c88586a9620e16040fa28ebb6e05926719360ba2 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-9f0809d4ab26a4376ecce03909d35db80da40023.tar.gz | |
Document problems with Windows file names that end in blanks.
doc/lispref/files.texi (Information about Files): Mention file names with
trailing blanks on MS-Windows. (Bug#15130)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/files.texi | 8 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index 3f9d23a5476..d2e86c25cc1 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-08-20 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * files.texi (Information about Files): Mention file names with + trailing blanks on MS-Windows. (Bug#15130) + 2013-08-18 Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> * positions.texi (Positions): Improve indexing. diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi index 77b097ae90a..1f7169522cc 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/files.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi @@ -776,6 +776,14 @@ return information about actual files or directories, so their arguments must all exist as actual files or directories unless otherwise noted. +@cindex file names, trailing whitespace +@cindex trailing blanks in file names +Be careful with file names that end in blanks: some filesystems +(notably, MS-Windows) will ignore trailing whitespace in file names, +and return information about the file after stripping those blanks +from the name, not about the file whose name you passed to the +functions described in this section. + @menu * Testing Accessibility:: Is a given file readable? Writable? * Kinds of Files:: Is it a directory? A symbolic link? |