X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:39:29 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <583678684.20130115233929@mtu-net.ru> To: Thomas Wolff , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion) In-Reply-To: <50F48358.6070800@towo.net> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >> 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) Only if it's a Cygwin symlink. Which I'm avoiding in my daily work, since NTFS now offers the same functionality. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.01.2013, <23:38> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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