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: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 16861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:29:31 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:

> 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.

Probably, but the problem is related to pwd.
See docstring of `eshell-pwd-convert-function'.

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