X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:56:10 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion) Message-ID: <20130115085610.GB2353@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5024B4D4.6080409@shaddybaddah.name> <50F395D5.4050201@shaddybaddah.name> <20130114061747.GB16739@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20130114100002.GA22039@calimero.vinschen.de> <50F48358.6070800@towo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50F48358.6070800@towo.net> 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 Jan 14 23:14, Thomas Wolff wrote: > 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...) Yes, that's a known downside. 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