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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130114061747.GB16739@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F395D5.4050201@shaddybaddah.name>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 04:21:25PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>In investigating this, I believe the issue I am having is due to how
>stat() handles tilde prefixed paths. On linux we see:
>
>linux$ $ python -c 'import os; print os.stat("~/..")'
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/..'
>
>and on cygwin we see:
>
>cygwin$ python -c 'import os; print os.stat("~/..")'
>posix.stat_result(st_mode=16832, st_ino=562949953496729L, 
>st_dev=4174909669L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=42037, st_gid=10513, st_size=0L, 
>st_atime=1357616166, st_mtime=1357616166, st_ctime=1357616166)

It is a bug.  It's not just "~".  Any nonexistent directory will
work, like "foo/..".

cgf

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-10 14:25 bad bash tab completion Shaddy Baddah
2012-08-10 16:54 ` Eric Blake
2013-01-14  5:21 ` stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion) Shaddy Baddah
2013-01-14  6:17   ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2013-01-14 12:23     ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-01-14 14:37       ` Shaddy Baddah
2013-01-14 16:13         ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-01-14 20:29           ` Stephan Mueller
2013-01-14 21:37             ` Ryan Johnson
2013-01-15  8:44               ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-01-15 12:33           ` Shaddy Baddah
2013-02-07  7:00             ` Shaddy Baddah
2013-02-07 15:32               ` Eric Blake
2013-02-07 16:10                 ` Thomas Wolff
2013-02-07 16:24                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-07 16:26                     ` Christopher Faylor
2013-01-14 15:27       ` Christopher Faylor
2013-01-14 16:05         ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-01-14 17:00           ` Christopher Faylor
2013-01-14 22:15       ` Thomas Wolff
2013-01-15  8:56         ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-01-15 19:50         ` Andrey Repin
2013-01-15 20:03           ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)

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