# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1116689293 0
# Node ID 12b3cd6b8467fee27715459b1295badab904662d
# Parent  bf515cb14f37bb488988e8d5451885558c3a7d37
(Fexpand_file_name) [DOS_NT]: Don't try to support "superroot"
on DOS_NT systems.

diff -r bf515cb14f37 -r 12b3cd6b8467 src/fileio.c
--- a/src/fileio.c	Sat May 21 14:14:05 2005 +0000
+++ b/src/fileio.c	Sat May 21 15:28:13 2005 +0000
@@ -1651,8 +1651,16 @@
 	  p += 2;
 	}
       else if (IS_DIRECTORY_SEP (p[0]) && p[1] == '.' && p[2] == '.'
-	       /* `/../' is the "superroot" on certain file systems.  */
+	       /* `/../' 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.)  */
+#ifndef DOS_NT
 	       && o != target
+#endif
 	       && (IS_DIRECTORY_SEP (p[3]) || p[3] == 0))
 	{
 	  while (o != target && (--o) && !IS_DIRECTORY_SEP (*o))