On 2017-02-07 16:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 07.02.2017 um 16:30 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> Greetings, Roger Qiu! >>> I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an >>> absolute windows path. >>> ... >> ".." is a special path, that can't be safely converted. > How is the special meaning of ".." so much different in Windows than > in Cygwin/Linux/POSIX that it could not be mapped? > Things like dir .., cd .., type ..\sub\file all work comparably.
Think the problem is tracking logical directory paths following symlinks makes it difficult to reconstruct a relative Windows directory path - I like and use symlinks a lot as command line accessible shortcuts to directories spread all over the place - and shells that only track physical directory paths used to drive me wild, as cd dir followed by cd .. left me off in the wild. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
