This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point


On Jun 18 13:43, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > Other than that, I fixed that in CVS.  It's a Win32 path coversion problem
> > which only occurs if there are multiple backslashes trailing a ".." path
> > component.
> 
>  Thanks a lot for fixing this! Just out of idle curiosity, why did the
> problem only manifest itself under Windows 7 and not XP? Looking at
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc.diff?r1=1.629&r2=1.630&cvsroot=src&f=h
> and surrounding code I don't see anything obviously platform-specific.

Stracing shows that XP (probably all 5.x kernels) allow to specify paths
with multiple backslashes in calls to NtCreateFile, while the 6.x
kernels fail with STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]