Subject: Re: bug#64102: 28.2; fails to find pathname with a sub dir as symlink and with parent dir ('..')

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:03:59 -0700

On 2023-06-18 01:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Paul, any comments or ideas?

Emacs's behavior is well-documented and longstanding. It's also wrong, 
in that it disagrees with almost every other program and it therefore 
confuses users, particularly non-experts.

One possible way out would be to add a user-settable flag to select the 
longstanding Emacs behavior, or the behavior of most other programs. We 
could document that the default might change in the future. Of course 
this approach would have its own problems.