X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:45:56 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work Message-ID: <20110202204556.GL2675@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Feb 1 19:37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Cygwin developers, > > The following fails for me (and web and list search haven't been helpful): > > $ mkdir ... > $ cd ... > $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe . > $ ./ls.exe > bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory > > Same with code compiled in this directory. > > Is this a bug or by design? Works fine for me: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 vmbert7 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin $ cd tmp $ mkdir ... $ cd ... $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe . $ ./ls ls.exe I tried on NTFS, Samba and NFS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple