Re: (expand-file-name "/..")
Jerry James <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Marcus Harnisch <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think the “superroot” in the comment refers to Windows, else > it would have been mentioned somehow. As a matter of fact, looking > over the fence revealed a bit more information[1]: > > /* `/../' is the "superroot" on certain file systems. > Turned off on DOS_NT systems because they have no > "superroot" and because this causes us to produce > file names like "d:/../foo" which fail file-related > functions of the underlying OS. (To reproduce, try a > long series of "../../" in default_directory, longer > than the number of levels from the root.) */ So a Newcastle Connection kind of superroot, perhaps: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/229793445_The_newcastle_connection_or_UNIXes_of_the_world_unite! -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta