Re: symlink weirdness

[Stefan Monnier]

> When would the result created without looking at the file system not
> work? I don't know if it's true for all OSes, but GNU/Linux can have
> symlinks use other symlinks, so is any special attention to symlinks
> needed?

Very easy:

     cd; ln -s share/bin .

(file-relative-name "~/" "~/bin/") will return "../" whereas "../../" is
needed to go from ~/bin/ to ~/.


        Stefan