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Subject: RE: cd accepting paths with trailing dots that don't exist (bash and tcsh)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:14:02 -0500
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Steve,

Sounds to me like you're interested in knowing some of the internal 
details of the border between the Cygwin POSIX emulation layer and
the support provided by the WIN32 API.  The best way to get these details
is to actually "dig in" to the code and see what it does.  It is possible 
that the concerns you have can be addressed in a generally useful way
by the Cygwin DLL but I doubt anyone's look into them in any detail such 
that it would allow them to provide you a direct and simple answer.  If
you're interested in those answers, you're welcome to pursue them yourself,
assuming, of course, that someone on this list doesn't provide you with 
all the details you're looking for. 

Larry

Original Message:
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From: Steve Fairbairn steve DOT fairbairn AT perwill DOT com
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:49:24 -0000
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: cd accepting paths with trailing dots that don't exist (bash
and tcsh)


Corinna & All,

After a play with a dos command prompt, I see your point.  I would however
point out that there is still a difference with bash.  If you have more than
one trailing . in bash, the 'directory' it puts you in is empty, and you
cannot create any files in there.  Also bash seems to retain the trailing
dots as part of your cwd, which the dos prompt doesn't do.  With the dos
prompt, it just seems to strip the trailing dots off, and always leave you
in the directory you trailed with dots.

As for "correct functionality" I meant whatever the cygwin developers define
as correct.  My personal preference would be for bash to complain about the
trailing dots, but I understand that the shell probably just uses the
Windows OS chdir function, and so it is Windows deciding the path is valid.
Would there be massive overhead in bash re-reading the cwd after a
successful chdir, and so not display the dots?  How come ls etc doesn't work
if there is more than one trailing dot?

Thanks,

Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
Sent: 10 December 2002 15:33
To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
Subject: Re: cd accepting paths with trailing dots that don't exist
(bash and tcsh)


On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:47:10AM -0000, Steve Fairbairn wrote:
> I've just come across some very strange (to me at least) results with the
cd
> command in both bash and tcsh under cygwin (1.3.17-1).  I have cut and
paste
> from my shell as I feel it would be easier for you to read it yourself.
> 
> I don't have any aliases set.  The output is all from bash, but tcsh
seemed
> to do exactly the same thing.
> 
> I apologise if this is correct functionality, but the suse box I tried
this
> on complained bitterly at the lack of blah... etc existing.

Define "correct functionality".

Honestly, it's a Windows thingy.  Windows allows any number of trailing
dots for a path or file name.  Go figure!

Corinna

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Red Hat, Inc.

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