From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30977 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2013 17:00:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 30897 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jan 2013 17:00:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_CG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:59:49 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-21.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.21] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TunO0-000Gtq-20 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:59:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A918805BD for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:59:47 -0500 (EST) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19Qlvw2qslp1V0V2aD6Nv9K Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:00:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion) Message-ID: <20130114165947.GC29198@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5024B4D4.6080409@shaddybaddah.name> <50F395D5.4050201@shaddybaddah.name> <20130114061747.GB16739@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20130114100002.GA22039@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130114152714.GC27617@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20130114160417.GA8617@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130114160417.GA8617@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2013-01/txt/msg00187.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:04:17PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 14 10:27, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:00:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >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" >> >[...] >> Also: >> >> c:\>dir foo\bar\..\.. >> >> Volume in drive S is share Serial number is e620:3c3d >> Directory of S:\* >> >> 1/11/2013 9:58 . >> 12/26/2012 21:34 .. >> 1/12/2013 16:27 bin >> 1/14/2013 10:20 cgf >> ... >> >> I don't have a foo directory but cmd was happy to just ignore that >> fact and show my the root directory. This is YA place where Windows >> and Linux differ drastically. > >Indeed. Before writing my mail I tested the "GetFullPathName" function, >and I was not exactly surprised to find that it behaves as you describe >for CMD. Right. It's not just CMD. A standard windows program will behave similarly. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple