Subject: Re: bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:03:24 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> I'm guessing it's calling expand-file-name here to resolve "~"?
>
> No, because we always must call expand-file-name before invoking a
> libc function that accesses files -- to support file names relative to
> their buffer's default-directory.

These are absolute file names, though.  I can understand expanding if
they're not.

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