On Jan 14 10:27, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:00:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The first step of converting a POSIX path to a Windows path is to > >normalize the path. "." and ".." components are simply dropped: > > > > "a/b/./c" -> "a\b\c" > > "a/b/../c" -> "a\c" > >[...] > Also: > > c:\>dir foo\bar\..\.. > > Volume in drive S is share Serial number is e620:3c3d > Directory of S:\* > > 1/11/2013 9:58 <DIR> . > 12/26/2012 21:34 <DIR> .. > 1/12/2013 16:27 <DIR> bin > 1/14/2013 10:20 <DIR> cgf > ... > > I don't have a foo directory but cmd was happy to just ignore that > fact and show my the root directory. This is YA place where Windows > and Linux differ drastically.
Indeed. Before writing my mail I tested the "GetFullPathName" function, and I was not exactly surprised to find that it behaves as you describe for CMD. 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
