> Cygwin will accept the path "dir/../file" as being the same as "file", > regardless of whether "dir" exists. Apprently, someone decided that a > simple path-trimming rule would speed things up, but it is wrong. For > example, it breaks building of xedit/lisp, where "lisp/../xedit.h" is > not the same as "xedit.h". > > This occurs from bash and tcsh, so it must be in some low-level > unix-to-win32 path name processing.
I've raised the issue of this bug in the past, and the response was that fixing it would likely slow down the normal case. I too would like to see it fixed, because it is contrary to POSIX. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
