Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >> 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...) > (Not sure whether this case is covered by further arguments in this thread)
Only if it's a Cygwin symlink. Which I'm avoiding in my daily work, since NTFS now offers the same functionality. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 15.01.2013, <23:38> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
