Re: file-relative-name and remote files

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

|> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
|> 
|> > I see that (expand-file-name "/address@hidden:/../emacs")
|> > returns "/address@hidden:/../emacs".  That is surprising;
|> > I expected it to return "/emacs".
|> 
|> I've explained previously why I think that
|> 
|> (expand-file-name "/address@hidden:/../emacs")
|> => "/address@hidden:/emacs"
|> 
|> should hold.  Now I found the explanation why the "/.." part remains
|> in the filename.  Viz,
|> 
|> (expand-file-name "/../tmp") => "/../tmp"
|> 
|> Should this be changed?  What should the result be?

IIRC there are systems where "/.." has a different meaning than "/".

Andreas.

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