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

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> I think this is the Andrew file system.  Indeed, I think that is the
> reason why Emacs doesn't convert `/..' to `/',
>
> I don't know whether AFS is still used.  If not, we would like to
> remove the support for it, by and by.  But there is certainly no
> reason to remove it just now.

OpenAFS at least is still widely used in the particle physics
community. I have never encountered the "superroot" concept in
connection with it though. Everything is accessed through /afs.