GNU bug report logs - #26911
25.2; eshell "cd .." doesn't work correctly with TRAMP

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 16:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Found in version 25.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 26911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26911: 25.2; eshell "cd .." doesn't work correctly with TRAMP
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 21:30:16 +0300

> I could reproduce it. Seems to be like a problem in locate-file,
> reproducible with
> 
> (let ((default-directory "/ssh::/bin"))
>  (locate-file ".." '("./")))
> 
> I'll dig further.

(cd "../") works (with a trailing slash).

Just to make it clear, as you've already pointed out, this is not specific to eshell:
cd and locate-file in files.el are also affected.
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