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Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point
On 2011-06-17 21:23Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> Illia Bobyr <Illia.Bobyr <at> ronin-capital.com> writes:
>
>>
>> On 6/17/2011 1:59 PM, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I think I've discovered a bug with handling specific forms of "mixed" form
>> > paths in Cygwin 1.7. Here is the briefest possible demonstration:
>> >
>> > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a
>> > C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a
>> > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a
>> > ls: cannot access C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > P.S. I don't include detailed cygcheck output as I don't think it's of any
>> > interest because the bug isn't system-dependent but please let me know
>> > if it would be useful to send it nevertheless, e.g. if you can't
>> > reproduce this behaviour.
>>
>> Does not happen on my box:
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 WITD-ORL-IBOBY1 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
>
> I see the following differences:
>
> - You have 1.7.9 while I have 1.7.8 and 1.7.7.
> - You have XP while I have 64 bit Windows 7.
>
> As I don't see any mention of such bug being fixed in 1.7.9 change log I
> suppose the really important difference is between the OS versions and/or
> 32 vs 64 bits. I'll try to install Cygwin into XP and 32 bit Windows 7 to
> check this too if nobody else posts the test results for these platforms
> until tomorrow.
Another data point--no such problem with XP-SP3 and Cygwin-1.7.7:
$ls C:/cygwin-1_7/lib/X11/../libc.a
C:/cygwin-1_7/lib/X11/../libc.a
$ls C:/cygwin-1_7/lib/X11/..//libc.a
C:/cygwin-1_7/lib/X11/..//libc.a
$uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 earl 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
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