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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:12:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin doesn't show .. in all directories
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:58:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Do a "dir c:" and then, say, a "dir c:\tmp" and note the difference.
>Windows doesn't put a '.' and '..' in the root directories of drives.
>Cygwin uses whatever windows provides.

FWIW, after six years, it suddenly occurred to me how to easily work
around this Windows limitation in cygwin.  So, I have checked in some
code to rectify this behavior.

I'm trying to generate a snapshot but I just updated my gcc to 3.3.1
and it is not a given that it will work right.  I should have something
up eventually.  Any snapshot greater than or equal to 2003-08-08 should
have this fix in it.

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
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