Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:01:51 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I always thought it was a rather clever idea.  It certainly messes up
> assumptions some programs make, but I think the "/.." == "/" assumption
> is generally rather rare in practice.  [Compare to the microsoftian "//"
> superroot syntax, which messes up the far more common "//" == "/"
> assumption, and just generally feels a lot more arbitrary.]

The Microsoft // doesn't mess up anything because on Microsoft
filesystems // != /.