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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Norton Allen" <allen AT huarp DOT harvard DOT edu>
References: <200302032241 DOT RAA19340 AT bottesini DOT harvard DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:36:35 -0000
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>   FWIW, I've just tested on Linux (of some flavor) and OpenBSD,
>   and neither thinks ' ' is a directory.
>
>   In any event, I'd like to figure out whether it's a bug or
>   a feature under Cygwin so I can move forward.

Sorry, it is my head then :/

It may just be a Cygwin geature, and by looking at the strace output

  293 1191913 [main] ls 2188 fhandler_base::fstat: here
   99 1192012 [main] ls 2188 fstat64: 0 = fstat (1, 0x241FCA8)
  298 1192310 [main] ls 2188 writev: writev (1, 0x241FD78, 1)
  480 1192790 [main] ls 2188 fhandler_base::write: binary write
total 0

It looks as if passing ' ' to ls -al makes it think that ' ' is the current
working directory. Never looked at the fhandler code so I'm probably way out
:::::-)


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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