X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:47:01 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <2710092430.20130314184701@mtu-net.ru> To: Jacob Kroon , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with relative path containing nonexisting directory In-Reply-To: References: 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, Jacob Kroon! > I'm having problems compiling EGLIBC in Cygwin. I think the reason is > the following: > Doing "ls foobar/../" in a Cygwin terminal, where the directory > "foobar" does _not_ exist, still returns a valid file listing of the > current path. > Doing the same operation in Fedora, ls will print "No such file or directory". > Is this a bug in Cygwin ? Is there a configure option to enable the > Fedora-behaviour ? This is a known issue with Cygwin path handling. Look in archives for an in-depth explanation. > Please CC me as I'm not a subscriber to the list. You're supposed to subscribe, if you intend to receive replies. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 14.03.2013, <18:45> 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