Subject: Re: cd accepting paths with trailing dots that don't exist (bash and tcsh)
From: Shankar Unni <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:34:17 -0800

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Honestly, it's a Windows thingy.  Windows allows any number of trailing
> dots for a path or file name.  Go figure!

And ".." is handled as a special case somewhere in Win32. For giggles, 
try "cd ..." or "cd ....". Both behave like "cd .". Anyway, it's not a 
cygwin bug.

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