Merge from emacs-23

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
index 886e5ebc411..c2b93a6bd8b 100644
--- a/src/fileio.c
+++ b/src/fileio.c
@@ -786,6 +786,9 @@ File name components that are `.' are removed, and
 so are file name components followed by `..', along with the `..' itself;
 note that these simplifications are done without checking the resulting
 file names in the file system.
+Multiple consecutive slashes are collapsed into a single slash,
+except at the beginning of the file name when they are significant (e.g.,
+UNC file names on MS-Windows.)
 An initial `~/' expands to your home directory.
 An initial `~USER/' expands to USER's home directory.
 See also the function `substitute-in-file-name'.
@@ -793,7 +796,7 @@ See also the function `substitute-in-file-name'.
 For technical reasons, this function can return correct but
 non-intuitive results for the root directory; for instance,
 \(expand-file-name ".." "/") returns "/..".  For this reason, use
-(directory-file-name (file-name-directory dirname)) to traverse a
+\(directory-file-name (file-name-directory dirname)) to traverse a
 filesystem tree, not (expand-file-name ".."  dirname).  */)
   (Lisp_Object name, Lisp_Object default_directory)
 {