GNU bug report logs - #8035
Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: spucci <slpnabble <at> blackberry-hill.com>

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:50:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8035 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, slpnabble <at> blackberry-hill.com
Subject: bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:24:28 +0200

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

> expand-file-name also normalizes file names, though.  Which is also
> needed in some use cases, e.g. when the /foo/bar/ isn't accessible,
> but /foo/ is, in which case failing to normalize /foo/bar/../quux
> could fail some file I/O function.

Hm, yes, that's a point...

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