From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: error in "cygpath" behavior
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 07:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfa55fc0-7679-cb7f-f978-5a7e73ebdfd4@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad34f7a7-ec71-de69-b2d2-711c2e8d61b0@redhat.com>
Am 31.08.2018 um 22:05 schrieb Eric Blake:
> On 08/31/2018 02:48 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
>
>>
>> Don't forget the possibility that '..' points to a symlink which Windows
>> will not understand.
>>
>> $ mkdir -p /foo/baz
>> $ ln -s /foo /bar
>> $ cd /bar/baz
>> $ cygpath -w ..
>
> Except .. never points to a symlink. It always points to the physical
> directory that contains the current directory (that is, /foo, not
> /bar). Â The shell can maintain a notion of a logical current directory
> (based on whether you use 'set -P' for physical or 'set +P' for
> logical; where bash defaults to +P), and in that mode, 'cd ..' behaves
> logically (acting as though you are now in /bar, rather than actually
> changing you to /foo). But that still doesn't change the fact that
> '..' in file name resolution never resolves to a symlink, because the
> shell is merely rewriting your ".." to avoid passing it on to the
> syscalls, rather than the syscalls actually knowing about logical mode.
As a side-note, this is also the reason that you may be facing apparent
inconsistency with path name completion,
like `ls ../[TAB]` suggesting you files and directories that do not
exist once you run the command.
This is not cygwin-specific.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-01 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-31 15:29 Steven Penny
2018-08-31 19:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-08-31 22:34 ` cyg Simple
[not found] ` <ad34f7a7-ec71-de69-b2d2-711c2e8d61b0@redhat.com>
2018-09-01 7:17 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
[not found] ` <5b89c269.1c69fb81.84d1a.6f1b@mx.google.com>
2018-09-01 6:40 ` Achim Gratz
2018-09-01 6:54 ` Brian Inglis
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