Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > With mount points one cannot reach "symlink/../not-in-cwd". To be
> > consistent with that, we should first compute ".."'s and then fail.
> > Correct?
>
> Sorry, I don't follow: what mount points?

``mountvol /?'' on any XP box.

There is also something called ``reparse points'' or something like 
that.  Sysinternals ``junction'' makes use of them.  MS has something 
called ``linkd''.

Earnie Boyd

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