X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50F48358.6070800@towo.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:14:48 +0100 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion) References: <5024B4D4.6080409@shaddybaddah.name> <50F395D5.4050201@shaddybaddah.name> <20130114061747.GB16739@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20130114100002.GA22039@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20130114100002.GA22039@calimero.vinschen.de> X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20130114231448212 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 Am 14.01.2013 11:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > ... > > The first step of converting a POSIX path to a Windows path is to > normalize the path. "." and ".." components are simply dropped: > > "a/b/./c" -> "a\b\c" > "a/b/../c" -> "a\c" which isn't correct already (even if everything exists) because if b is a symbolic link, "b/.." is *not* "." - (I think I came across this bug a few times already without really noticing it as a bug, having taken it as some spurious glitch...) (Not sure whether this case is covered by further arguments in this thread) ------ Thomas -- 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