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Am 14.01.2013 11:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> ...
>
> 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"
which isn't correct already (even if everything exists) because if b is 
a symbolic link, "b/.." is *not* "." -
(I think I came across this bug a few times already without really 
noticing it as a bug, having taken it as some spurious glitch...)
(Not sure whether this case is covered by further arguments in this thread)
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Thomas

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