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Re: Patch for cd .../. bug


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Patch for cd .../. bug


> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:39:28AM -0000, Chris January wrote:
> >This patch fixes the bug that allows cd .../. to succeed.
>
> This isn't a bug.  It's how Windows works.

Windows (NT) has trouble with this too.. see vuln-dev recently. One can
convince CMD that it is actually in C:\.. - which is somewhere in the NT
device tree IIRC.

Anyway, it seems reasonable to me to use unix behaviour for cygwin with
this.

Rob
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