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bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:24:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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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bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink, Andreas Schwab, 2021/08/26