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: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:06:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Vinay Kumar To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: symboilc link does not expand if followed by /.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all, I found a problem with symbolic link expansion in cygwin. Symbolic link does not expand properly if it is followed by /.. . To see it at your place please do the following. cd /tmp mkdir dir1 mkdir dir2 touch dir1/1.c cd dir2 ln -s ../dir1 symlink if we do ls symlink it gives 1.c as expected. But if we do ls symlink/.. then it list contents of present directory. @/tmp/dir2 $ ls symlink 1.c @/tmp/dir2 $ ls symlink/.. symlink I think it should list contents of /tmp directory. Could somebody throw some light over it. regards Vinay -- 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/