bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>>
>>> "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Enter eshell, change to / and then cd to ".." and eshell/pwd reports
>>>> "/.." instead of the canonical "/":
>>>
>>> (expand-file-name ".." "/") -> "/.."
>>>
>>> See its doc string.
>>
>> We are speaking here of `eshell/pwd' which should return "/" like
>> `*pwd', `expand-filename' is unrelated to this.
>
> See eshell/cd, which uses cd which uses expand-filename.

Probably, but the problem is related to pwd.
See docstring of `eshell-pwd-convert-function'.

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