Subject: Re: bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:23:14 +0100

Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> "R. Michael Weylandt" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> Enter eshell, change to / and then cd to ".." and eshell/pwd reports
>>> "/.." instead of the canonical "/":
>>
>> (expand-file-name ".." "/") -> "/.."
>>
>> See its doc string.
>
> We are speaking here of `eshell/pwd' which should return "/" like
> `*pwd', `expand-filename' is unrelated to this.

See eshell/cd, which uses cd which uses expand-filename.

Andreas.

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