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Subject: RE: another instance of .. issues
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:16:25 -0000
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On 22 February 2006 17:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:21:48AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>> and/or have openat() implemented directly in cygwin so that the openat
>>> emulation of open("/proc/self/fd/4/..") is avoided (not to mention more
>>> efficient by avoiding several other syscalls during the emulation).
>> 
>> I think implementing openat() directly would be the clear win here,
>> since the ".." processing seems to be such a landmine.  Of course
>> without a patch this is just hot air on my part.
> 
> But, then, it has been at least a couple of months since we've had
> a rousing discussion about how awful cygwin's '..' handling is, so
> it's clearly time to go into great depth about how useful it would
> be if cygwin just did things the RIGHT, the TRUE, the POSIX way.
> 
> cgf


  How many reinstalls does that usually take?   ;-)

    cheers,
      DaveK
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