On 08/31/2018 02:48 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
Don't forget the possibility that '..' points to a symlink which Windows will not understand. $ mkdir -p /foo/baz $ ln -s /foo /bar $ cd /bar/baz $ cygpath -w ..
Except .. never points to a symlink. It always points to the physical directory that contains the current directory (that is, /foo, not /bar). The shell can maintain a notion of a logical current directory (based on whether you use 'set -P' for physical or 'set +P' for logical; where bash defaults to +P), and in that mode, 'cd ..' behaves logically (acting as though you are now in /bar, rather than actually changing you to /foo). But that still doesn't change the fact that '..' in file name resolution never resolves to a symlink, because the shell is merely rewriting your ".." to avoid passing it on to the syscalls, rather than the syscalls actually knowing about logical mode.
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