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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:35:50 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Eric Blake <ericblake AT comcast DOT net>
CC: Carlo Florendo <list-subscriber AT hq DOT astra DOT ph>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ln, ls or readline problem?
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Eric Blake wrote:
>>$ ls -ld bar2
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1 Carlo None 7 Nov  9 08:47 bar2 -> foo/bar
>>
>>Here's the problem:
>>
>>When I  do a `cd bar2' and do an `ls -l ../', here's what I get:
> 
> 
> Known problem.  Cygwin takes a shortcut and treats name/.. as
> though it were a single ., which unfortunately is counter to posix
> when name was a symlink.  The problem is that patching cygwin
> is likely to slow down the common case, so the cygwin developers
> have chosen speed over correctness for the moment on this issue.


And I can't remember if this came up in that original thread but I see
the same behavior as described by the OP on Linux (FC4).


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