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

From: "R. Michael Weylandt <[email-masked]>" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:39:07 -0500

On Feb 24, 2014, at 4:30, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:

> "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.

Ok -- I hadn't run across file systems with a 'superroot' before (cf. Emacs Manual 25.8.4). I'll special case it in my Eshell prompt function then. 

Thanks for the quick reply,

Michael