Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/10/11:19:20
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:49:24PM -0000, Steve Fairbairn wrote:
>
> Corinna & All,
>
> After a play with a dos command prompt, I see your point. I would however
> point out that there is still a difference with bash. If you have more than
> one trailing . in bash, the 'directory' it puts you in is empty, and you
> cannot create any files in there. Also bash seems to retain the trailing
> dots as part of your cwd, which the dos prompt doesn't do. With the dos
> prompt, it just seems to strip the trailing dots off, and always leave you
> in the directory you trailed with dots.
>
> As for "correct functionality" I meant whatever the cygwin developers define
> as correct. My personal preference would be for bash to complain about the
> trailing dots, but I understand that the shell probably just uses the
> Windows OS chdir function, and so it is Windows deciding the path is valid.
> Would there be massive overhead in bash re-reading the cwd after a
> successful chdir, and so not display the dots? How come ls etc doesn't work
> if there is more than one trailing dot?
Weird. Works for me. I can create a dir "a.b" with files in it and
then cd into "a.b....." and I can see the files. I'm running tcsh, though.
Corinna
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