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Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:45:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work
- References: <loom.20110201T203452-177@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Feb 1 19:37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Cygwin developers,
>
> The following fails for me (and web and list search haven't been helpful):
>
> $ mkdir ...
> $ cd ...
> $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe .
> $ ./ls.exe
> bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory
>
> Same with code compiled in this directory.
>
> Is this a bug or by design?
Works fine for me:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 vmbert7 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
$ cd tmp
$ mkdir ...
$ cd ...
$ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe .
$ ./ls
ls.exe
I tried on NTFS, Samba and NFS.
Corinna
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