> FWIW, I've just tested on Linux (of some flavor) and OpenBSD, > and neither thinks ' ' is a directory. > > In any event, I'd like to figure out whether it's a bug or > a feature under Cygwin so I can move forward.
Sorry, it is my head then :/ It may just be a Cygwin geature, and by looking at the strace output 293 1191913 [main] ls 2188 fhandler_base::fstat: here 99 1192012 [main] ls 2188 fstat64: 0 = fstat (1, 0x241FCA8) 298 1192310 [main] ls 2188 writev: writev (1, 0x241FD78, 1) 480 1192790 [main] ls 2188 fhandler_base::write: binary write total 0 It looks as if passing ' ' to ls -al makes it think that ' ' is the current working directory. Never looked at the fhandler code so I'm probably way out :::::-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
