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Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 10:36:12 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
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On May 17 10:05, Fedin Pavel wrote:
>  Hello! I have found a bug in Cygwin. It exists at least for several months.
> I have updated today but it is still there.
>  The bug is simple to trigger and verify. Make a directory like:
> 
> mkdir /tmp/test
> 
>  Then go to /tmp and execute:
> 
> ls -l /tmp/nonexist/../test

The reason for this behaviour has been outlined a couple of times on
this list.  See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00173.html,
for instance.


Corinna

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