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: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:12:03 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin doesn't show .. in all directories Message-ID: <20030908041203.GA21732@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030908025822.GA15898@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030908025822.GA15898@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:58:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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. FWIW, after six years, it suddenly occurred to me how to easily work around this Windows limitation in cygwin. So, I have checked in some code to rectify this behavior. I'm trying to generate a snapshot but I just updated my gcc to 3.3.1 and it is not a given that it will work right. I should have something up eventually. Any snapshot greater than or equal to 2003-08-08 should have this fix in it. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- 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/