expand-file-name removes "foo/.."

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From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1991 08:12

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Expand-file-name should not remove "foo/.." if "foo" is a symlink (ie
it should never remove it if you don't want it to do any file system
calls).  I suppose this is a known bug and you have decided to keep
it anyway, but you should at least make a lisp variable which allows
us to turn off this behavior.  It *can* create disasters sometimes.


			Hallvard

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