From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130115085610.GB2353@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F48358.6070800@towo.net>
On Jan 14 23:14, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 14.01.2013 11:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> >...
> >
> >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"
> which isn't correct already (even if everything exists) because if b
> is a symbolic link, "b/.." is *not* "." -
> (I think I came across this bug a few times already without really
> noticing it as a bug, having taken it as some spurious glitch...)
Yes, that's a known downside.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-15 8:56 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
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 [this message]
2013-01-15 19:50 ` Andrey Repin
2013-01-15 20:03 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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