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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:10:41 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Patch: traling backslash
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> [...]
> >       ls -ld . ..
> >       drwx------  2 who ever 0 today   .
> >       drwx------  2 who ever 0 today   ..
> >
> >The wrong output of .. is a result of the following operation:
> >
> >       current working dir is Z:\foo
> >       .. is converted to Z: according to the mount table
> >       Z: is interpreted by Windows as Z:\foo
> 
> Cygwin is supposed to interpret z: as z:\ in every situation.
> If it isn't, that's the bug.
> 
> cgf

Uhm, excuse me, I don't understand what you mean. Do you agree or
do you think my explanation (and patch) is wrong?!?

A special reason for my patch is that cygwin calls win32 api
functions using the result of the path_conv conversion. This
is unfortunately in case of mounted root directories only
"X:" instead of "X:\".

Corinna