From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Mattias Andrée" <maandree@kth.se>
Cc: 33564@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33564: Incorrect path canonicalisation
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:55:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8fx2chq.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181201213514.5c22626f.maandree@kth.se> ("Mattias Andrée"'s message of "Sat, 1 Dec 2018 21:35:14 +0100")
On Dez 01 2018, Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 21:27:27 +0100
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
>> On Dez 01 2018, Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> wrote:
>>
>> > Emacs 26.1 removes ..'s incorrectly from file names.
>> > Emacs removes the directory in front the .. rather than
>> > getting its parent directory.
>>
>> This is deliberate. Emacs never consults the filesystem when
>> canonicalizing filenames, as documented in expand-file-name. This is
>> consistent with the logical view of the filesystem, and how the shell
>> builtin cd handles it.
>
> What is the rationale for this?
Canonicalizing is a pure textual operation.
> No other program Bash and Emacs behave this way, including the
> coreutils.
This is not true, as I explained above.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-01 20:04 bug#33564: Incorrect path canonicalisation Mattias Andrée
2018-12-01 20:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-12-01 20:35 ` Mattias Andrée
2018-12-01 20:55 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2018-12-01 21:14 ` Mattias Andrée
2018-12-02 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-21 2:26 ` Stefan Kangas
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