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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:58:10 +0200
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
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To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.5.1: can't open files beginning with "..."
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > Chris Moore wrote:
> > > > I have a file on my PC called "...foo.txt".
> >
> > This does work, but Cygwin's path handling code understands
> > only ".." and "." . If it get three dots in a raw and they
> > appear before the last '/' char, Cygwin returns ENOENT.
>
> Fixed in CVS now.

Does it fix the following:

Administrator AT mordor ~
$ cd /usr/bin../

Administrator AT mordor /usr/bin..
$ pwd
/usr/bin..

Administrator AT mordor /usr/bin..
$

Pavel

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