Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:58:22 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin doesn't show .. in all directories Message-ID: <20030908025822.GA15898@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:28:20PM +1000, David O'Shea wrote: >I didn't see a response to this query. Can someone at least confirm >that this appears to be a valid bug (just mount some directories and >take a look I guess!)? Once that happens I can look at how to fix it. >I had a quick look at the code a month ago and thought it would >probably be hard to fix but I guess a challenge would be good :) Do a "dir c:" and then, say, a "dir c:\tmp" and note the difference. Windows doesn't put a '.' and '..' in the root directories of drives. Cygwin uses whatever windows provides. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/