BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri May 17 08:36:00 GMT 2013
On May 17 10:05, Fedin Pavel wrote:
> Hello! I have found a bug in Cygwin. It exists at least for several months.
> I have updated today but it is still there.
> The bug is simple to trigger and verify. Make a directory like:
>
> mkdir /tmp/test
>
> Then go to /tmp and execute:
>
> ls -l /tmp/nonexist/../test
The reason for this behaviour has been outlined a couple of times on
this list. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00173.html,
for instance.
Corinna
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