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bug#33564: Incorrect path canonicalisation
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#33564: Incorrect path canonicalisation |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:30:49 +0200 |
tags 33564 notabug
thanks
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 21:04:50 +0100
> From: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
>
> cd
> mkdir -p 1/2
> cd 1/2
> echo 3 > ../../3
> ln -s ~ 4
> echo 5 > 5
> emacs 4/../5 # works, but shouldn't
> emacs 4/../$USER/3 # does not works, should
This is by design: expand-file-name doesn't follow symlinks. It's
documented not to do that: see the doc string and the ELisp manual.
> On Linux, the proper way to get the canonical path
> for a file with the file descriptor $fd:
expand-file-name doesn't aim at yielding the canonical file name in
that sense.
bug#33564: Incorrect path canonicalisation,
Eli Zaretskii <=