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Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:21:02 +0300 |
> 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 // != /.
- expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Diane Murray, 2007/04/16
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Chong Yidong, 2007/04/16
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Jason Rumney, 2007/04/17
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Jan Djärv, 2007/04/18
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/18
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Glenn Morris, 2007/04/19
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Miles Bader, 2007/04/19
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Glenn Morris, 2007/04/19
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Glenn Morris, 2007/04/19
- Re: expand-file-name leaves "/../" in expansions at times, Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/19