From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: spucci <slpnabble@blackberry-hill.com>
Cc: 8035@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00lj1bd7ty.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30918394.post@talk.nabble.com> (spucci's message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:05:40 -0800 (PST)")
spucci wrote:
> When emacs attempts to find a file with "../" as a path component, it
> appears to be "smart" about it and simply remove the previous directory path
> (e.g., "foo/bar/../x" gets converted to "foo/x"). But if bar is a symlink,
> then it doesn't properly find the file.
This appears to be a feature of expand-file-name (and possibly other
things). It does seem a little weird that there isn't even an option to
have a more thorough expansion...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-19 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-14 3:05 bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink spucci
2011-02-19 21:37 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2011-02-20 2:35 ` Steve Pucci
2011-02-20 2:41 ` Steve Pucci
2021-08-26 16:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-26 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 17:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-26 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 17:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-26 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 16:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-26 17:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-26 17:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-26 17:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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