GNU bug report logs - #64102
28.2; fails to find pathname with a sub dir as symlink and with parent dir ('..')

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jacob Burckhardt <jacob <at> teamconnectusa.com>

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:57:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.2

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Message #14 received at 64102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jacob <at> teamconnectusa.com, 64102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64102: 28.2; fails to find pathname with a sub dir as symlink
 and with parent dir ('..')
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.
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