GNU bug report logs - #16861
24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:23:14 +0100

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:
>
>> "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt <at> gmail.com> 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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