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, 26 Oct 2003 00:18:49 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.1: can't open files beginning with "..." Message-ID: <20031025221849.GQ1653@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <16281.6930.564000.468376@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20031025165210.GM1653@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:10PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > > Chris Moore wrote: > > > > > I have a file on my PC called "...foo.txt". > > > > > > This does work, but Cygwin's path handling code understands > > > only ".." and "." . If it get three dots in a raw and they > > > appear before the last '/' char, Cygwin returns ENOENT. > > > > Fixed in CVS now. > > Does it fix the following: > > Administrator@mordor ~ > $ cd /usr/bin../ No, it fixes the more than two leading dots problem. The above is a genuin windows problem as you noted in your previous mail. I don't know how to fix this without noticeably slowing down the path conv routine. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/