Subject: bug#33564: Incorrect path canonicalisation

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:27:27 +0100

On Dez 01 2018, Mattias Andrée <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Emacs 26.1 removes ..'s incorrectly from file names.
> Emacs removes the directory in front the .. rather than
> getting its parent directory.

This is deliberate.  Emacs never consults the filesystem when
canonicalizing filenames, as documented in expand-file-name.  This is
consistent with the logical view of the filesystem, and how the shell
builtin cd handles it.

Andreas.

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