X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D49D2C8.503@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:55:20 +0100 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work References: <20110202204556.GL2675@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D49C4EB.70204@redhat.com> <20110202212846.GN2675@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110202213205.GO2675@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110202213205.GO2675@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Btw., the "..." directory is not recognized at all by cmd.exe. If you > try to cd into it, it's simply ignored. If you set the CWD to it > and start cmd, cmd thinks it is in the parent directory. This occurs > on XP *and* W7. > > At least on XP cmd and others could not be run from a subdir below "...": $ /bin/pwd /tmp/... $ cmd.exe /c cd C:\cygwin\tmp $ mkdir x $ cd x # /bin/pwd /tmp/.../x # cmd.exe /c cd -bash: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd.exe: Not a directory Same for "....", ".....", .... Different path checking in win32api layer and ntdll layer ? I would suggest to either quote or reject "..." in Cygwin. Christian -- 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