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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:45:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.1: can't open files beginning with "..."
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:10PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> >
> > > 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../
> >
> > No, it fixes the more than two leading dots problem.  The above is
> > a genuin windows problem as you noted in your previous mail.  I don't
> > know how to fix this without noticeably slowing down the path conv
> > routine.
> >
> > Corinna
>
> That's what managed mode would be perfect for.  It would need something
> like the patch below:
>
> Index: winsup/cygwin/path.cc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc,v
> retrieving revision 1.277
> diff -u -p -r1.277 path.cc
> --- winsup/cygwin/path.cc       25 Oct 2003 16:12:45 -0000      1.277
> +++ winsup/cygwin/path.cc       26 Oct 2003 01:35:16 -0000
> @@ -1178,6 +1178,11 @@ special_name (const char *s, int inc = 1
>    if (strpbrk (s, special_chars))
>      return !strncasematch (s, "%2f", 3);
>
> +  if (strcasematch (s, ".") || strcasematch (s, ".."))
> +    return false;
> +  if (s[strlen (s)-1] == '.')
> +    return -1;
> +
>    const char *p;
>    if (strcasematch (s, "conin$") || strcasematch (s, "conout$"))
>      return -1;

The above didn't quite work.  I just sent an updated patch to
cygwin-patches.
	Igor
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