X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_CG
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn
X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information)
X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19Qlvw2qslp1V0V2aD6Nv9K
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:59:47 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)
Message-ID: <20130114165947.GC29198@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <5024B4D4 DOT 6080409 AT shaddybaddah DOT name> <50F395D5 DOT 4050201 AT shaddybaddah DOT name> <20130114061747 DOT GB16739 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20130114100002 DOT GA22039 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20130114152714 DOT GC27617 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20130114160417 DOT GA8617 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20130114160417.GA8617@calimero.vinschen.de>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:04:17PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 14 10:27, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:00:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >The first step of converting a POSIX path to a Windows path is to
>> >normalize the path.  "." and ".." components are simply dropped:
>> >
>> >  "a/b/./c"  -> "a\b\c"
>> >  "a/b/../c" -> "a\c"
>> >[...]
>> Also:
>> 
>>   c:\>dir foo\bar\..\..
>> 
>>    Volume in drive S is share          Serial number is e620:3c3d
>>    Directory of  S:\*
>> 
>>    1/11/2013   9:58         <DIR>    .
>>   12/26/2012  21:34         <DIR>    ..
>>    1/12/2013  16:27         <DIR>    bin
>>    1/14/2013  10:20         <DIR>    cgf
>>    ...
>> 
>> I don't have a foo directory but cmd was happy to just ignore that
>> fact and show my the root directory.  This is YA place where Windows
>> and Linux differ drastically.
>
>Indeed.  Before writing my mail I tested the "GetFullPathName" function,
>and I was not exactly surprised to find that it behaves as you describe
>for CMD.

Right.  It's not just CMD.  A standard windows program will behave
similarly.

cgf

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple