Re: ln, ls or readline problem?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Eric Blake wrote:
> > $ ls -ld bar2
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 Carlo None 7 Nov  9 08:47 bar2 -> foo/bar
> >
> > Here's the problem:
> >
> > When I  do a `cd bar2' and do an `ls -l ../', here's what I get:
>
>
> Known problem.  Cygwin takes a shortcut and treats name/.. as
> though it were a single ., which unfortunately is counter to posix
> when name was a symlink.  The problem is that patching cygwin
> is likely to slow down the common case, so the cygwin developers
> have chosen speed over correctness for the moment on this issue.


And I can't remember if this came up in that original thread but I see
the same behavior as described by the OP on Linux (FC4).


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