X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_RW,TW_VM,TW_WX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:18:14 -0500 Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <20110202204556.GL2675@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D49C8FF.5050302@veritech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15pre) Gecko/20110201 Lightning/1.0b2 Shredder/3.1.9pre In-Reply-To: <4D49C8FF.5050302@veritech.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 02/02/2011 04:13 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: > On 2/2/2011 3:51 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >> On Feb 1 19:37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >>> 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 > > > not working also here: > > > $ uname -a > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.8s(0.235/5/3) 20110130 23:04:08 i686 Cygwin > > > $ ./ls.exe > > bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory > > > $ ./ls > > bash: ./ls: No such file or directory > > > $ ls -l > > total 128 > > -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Marco Administrators 129550 Feb 2 20:55 ls.exe > > Works for me on NTFS. > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 GW2 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin > > Conceivably, this could be a bug that might be important, but I > have to ask: > > How good an idea is it to name a directory '...'? It's a supported directory name in that it is allowed. As such, if not working, it a bug. This is regardless if it's a good idea or not. -- Andrew DeFaria Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken? -- 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