ln, ls or readline problem?
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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Wed Nov 9 03:01:00 GMT 2005
Eric Blake wrote:
>>$ ls -ld bar2
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Carlo None 7 Nov 9 08:47 bar2 -> foo/bar
>>
>>Here's the problem:
>>
>>When I do a `cd bar2' and do an `ls -l ../', here's what I get:
>
>
> Known problem. Cygwin takes a shortcut and treats name/.. as
> though it were a single ., which unfortunately is counter to posix
> when name was a symlink. The problem is that patching cygwin
> is likely to slow down the common case, so the cygwin developers
> have chosen speed over correctness for the moment on this issue.
And I can't remember if this came up in that original thread but I see
the same behavior as described by the OP on Linux (FC4).
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