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From: Robert Pendell <shinji+cygwin AT elite-systems DOT org>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:17:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: cygpath -m behaviour change
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:55 AM, David Griffiths <> wrote:
> I reinstalled cygwin after a disk failure recently and one of my
> scripts stopped working. The problem can be easily reproduced by
> entering:
>
>     $ cygpath -m boo/..
>     cygpath: error converting "boo/.." - No such file or directory
>
> this is with version 1.7.24(0.269/5/3). On another machine with 1.7.17
> installed, the same command results in "./".
>
> I can workaround by using backslashes instead of forward slashes but
> other people might find their scripts broken as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>

I believe this behavior was changed in 1.7.22

See this thread for more information but basically it was changed to
conform /.. path checking to posix standards.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00222.html

Robert Pendell
A perfect world is one of chaos.

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