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bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink
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spucci |
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bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:05:40 -0800 (PST) |
The behavior is general, but it's a particular problem with next-error:
When emacs attempts to find a file with "../" as a path component, it
appears to be "smart" about it and simply remove the previous directory path
(e.g., "foo/bar/../x" gets converted to "foo/x"). But if bar is a symlink,
then it doesn't properly find the file. So in compiler output, which
references such files, the next-error function fails to find the file with
the given name.
mkdir dest
mkdir dest/subdir
mkdir src
ln -s ../dest/subdir src/subdir
echo "#error This is an error" > dest/foo.c
Now M-x compile, and give it cc -c src/subdir/../foo.c
*compilation* buffer has:
cc -c src/subdir/../foo.c
src/subdir/../foo.c:1:2: error: #error This is an error
and do a next-error: Emacs complains it can't find the file. And if you try
to find-file that file path (src/subdir/../foo.c) it doesn't work either.
Nor does "emacsclient src/subdir/../foo.c. I couldn't find an option to
disable this behavior; it seems like there should be one even if the default
continues to be as it is today.
This is Gnu Emacs 23.2.1 I built myself on MacOS X 10.6.6.
Thanks,
Steve
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