Fwd: XDG Base directory specification

[Richard Boulton]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:20, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> "If the directory appears to be a valid directory name but isn't
>  available, the program should make a good-faith effort to access it
>  during the lifetime of the program.  It should let the user know about
>  any problems that it runs into while trying to save.  If the directory
>  name itself isn't valid, then the default environment is used."

This would mean that if i made the typo of missing off the initial "/"
in the path, I would get a different error message from accidentally
doubling a character inside the path.

These seem like the same kind of error to me - I don't see the need to
treat one differently to the other.

-- 
Richard