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Re: 1.5.1: can't open files beginning with "..."


On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:10PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > > Chris Moore wrote:
> > > > > I have a file on my PC called "...foo.txt".
> > >
> > > This does work, but Cygwin's path handling code understands
> > > only ".." and "." . If it get three dots in a raw and they
> > > appear before the last '/' char, Cygwin returns ENOENT.
> >
> > Fixed in CVS now.
> 
> Does it fix the following:
> 
> Administrator@mordor ~
> $ cd /usr/bin../

No, it fixes the more than two leading dots problem.  The above is
a genuin windows problem as you noted in your previous mail.  I don't
know how to fix this without noticeably slowing down the path conv
routine.

Corinna

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