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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:43:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: cd ....
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In-Reply-To: <3964BB6B399.E1F4SOHDA@matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp>; from sohda@is.titech.ac.jp on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 02:01:31AM +0900

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 02:01:31AM +0900, Yukihiko Sohda wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I reports a trivial(?) bug.
>"cd" accepts illegal path like this.
>
>[/]cd ...
>[/...]cd ..
>[/]cd ...
>[/...]cd ...
>[/.../...]cd ..
>[/.../.../..]cd /
>[/]cd ...........
>[/...........]pwd
>/...........
>[/...........]
>
>I examined this with the following cygwin1.dll,
>and got the similar result.
>
>- CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODSTOCK 1.1.2(0.21/3/2) 2000-06-06 22:20 i686 unknown
>- CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODSTOCK 1.1.3s(0.24/3/2) 2000-07-04 23:55 i686 unknown

Have you tried the same thing with Windows?  Windows accepts these paths.

I don't want to add a check in the already overburdened path handling code
just to stop somebody from doing something that is valid on Windows.

cgf

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