> Weird pathname handling that is simultaneously too abstract, and too nonportable, which is oxymoronic. The pathname abstraction caters to features of operatin

> Weird pathname handling that is simultaneously too abstract, and too nonportable, which is oxymoronic. The pathname abstraction caters to features of operating systems that basically no longer exist. This times 100. There are only a few places where the ANSI standard got it very wrong, but this is one of them. Logical pathnames were intended to abstract away different file naming conventions but what they actually did was cast in stone some anachronisms that are incompatible with modern Unix file naming (e.g. case-sensitive path names. Whoops! Can't handle that.) The good news is that you can just ignore logical pathnames and use normal native pathnames, or use the illogical-pathnames package which largely fixes the problem.