On Jan 14 23:14, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 14.01.2013 11:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >... > > > >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" > which isn't correct already (even if everything exists) because if b > is a symbolic link, "b/.." is *not* "." - > (I think I came across this bug a few times already without really > noticing it as a bug, having taken it as some spurious glitch...)
Yes, that's a known downside. 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
