Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:57:11 -0400
> From: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> >> With mount points one cannot reach "symlink/../not-in-cwd". To be
> >> consistent with that, we should first compute ".."'s and then fail.
> >> Correct?
> >
> > Sorry, I don't follow: what mount points?
> >
> 
> ``mountvol /?'' on any XP box.

Ah, okay.  But what does this have to do with symlinks?  These mount
points don't behave like symlinks, no more so than SUBST'ed drive
does.