On 2/8/2017 5:42 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > Am 08.02.2017 um 11:54 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >> >>> 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. >> Comparable? May be. Predictable? >> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73797 > I don't know what __DIR__ is supposed to mean in PHP. Anyway, handling
It's simply a constant of the directory for the file in which __DIR__ appears. The constant has a namespace relative to the file. > ".." is not predictable even within Linux/Cygwin, you could see > something like: >> ls dir1/file > dir1/file >> cd dir2 >> ls ../dir1/file > No such file or directory > > (if dir2 is a link), or can have surprising effects of cd vs. cd -P. > I don't see how that should exclude ".." from being transformed to ".." > by cygpath -w, even if the result may be somewhat unexpected in some > border cases (which I haven't seen yet). I agree. -- cyg Simple -- 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
