On 28/07/2023 16:44, LARONDE Thierry wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 04:20:09PM +0100, Joseph Wright wrote:
>> On 28/07/2023 16:18, David Carlisle wrote:
>>> On 28/07/2023 16:14, LARONDE Thierry wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 03:58:49PM +0100, Joseph Wright wrote:
>>>>> On 28/07/2023 15:28,  Thierry wrote:
>>>>>> Yes. But the same engine does things differently between LaTeX
>>>>>> 2022-11-01 and LaTeX 2023-06-01.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So could someone give me the diff of the input related things in
>>>>>> LaTeX between these two versions so that I can have a clue about
>>>>>> what LaTeX is expecting and what it is eventually calling (because it
>>>>>> could be calling, low level, the open routine, and there is no
>>>>>> acrobatics made in the open routine in kerTeX: the handling is made
>>>>>> before calling the routine; so if LaTeX is calling low level like
>>>>>> this, the result is not a surprise).
>>>>> Older LaTeX used \openin + \ifeof to test for file existence; we now use
>>>>> \(pdf)filesize, which is expandable and reports "0" for a
>>>>> non-existent file.
>>>>> Both methods should find "foo.tex" from "foo" in the same way.
>>>>>
>>>> Uh! You expect \filesize to do searching and file extension? Why?
>>>> \filesize can be called with whatever file, not necessarily a .tex.
>>>> Why would it assume it has to try an extension if it is not found?
>>>>
>>>> Where was this specified for the primitive?
>>>
>>> The primitive has always acted that way (since being added by pdftex)
>>> it's not a latex feature.
>>>
>>> If \input{xxx} inputs a file, \(pdf)filesize{xxx} should refer to the
>>> same file, so the primitive has always used the same file searching.
>>
>> Indeed, we (team) picked up the trick of using \(pdf)filesize from Heiko
>> Oberdiek's code, where it has been used for I think 15+ years in some
>> extensions to the graphics mechanisms for file searching.
>>
> 
> And it was specified nowhere.

True, but I think that's because it's implicit in TeX. The 'classical' 
primitives \input, \openin and \openout all add .tex if no file 
extension is given: this is why you cannot create extensionless files 
from DocStrip, for example. So when Hans added other file-related 
primitives to pdfTeX, the same underlying extension behaviour applied 
automatically - the same low-level file access is used by everything.

Joseph