bug#8035: Processing of .. in a file path after going thru symlink

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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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