Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Originating-IP: [203.12.97.91] X-Originating-Email: [dcoshea AT hotmail DOT com] From: "David O'Shea" To: Subject: Cygwin doesn't show .. in all directories Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:26:35 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Aug 2003 07:26:38.0717 (UTC) FILETIME=[BCBDB2D0:01C35F10] Hi all, Apologies if this is old news, but I couldn't find mention of it in the FAQ or mailing list archives. I have my F: mounted at /backup under Cygwin. When I 'ls -al /backup' there is no '.' or '..' entry in /backup, I guess because they are not there physically and hence not reported by Windows (FAT filesystems never have a '.' or '..' in the root directory as far as I know). On Linux, every directory, including the root directory '/', has a '.' and '..' entry, so I guess for consistency they ought to be there. This is an issue for me because in MToolsFM, which allows you to graphically browse your directories (plus browse directories via 'mtools'), you go up a directory by double-clicking on a '..' entry in the list of directory contents. I imagine that if MToolsFM was hacked to show a '..' entry even if it didn't see one in the filesystem, things would work, since 'cd ..' works fine when I am in the /backup directory (I guess Cygwin doesn't actually look for the directory entry '..', it just goes up a directory). Of course I don't know if it might be the case that applications shouldn't assume that all *nix-ish platforms have a directory entry pointing to the parent directory. Either way, please let me know! Thanks in advance, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/