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Re: ln, ls or readline problem?
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Carlo Florendo <list-subscriber at hq dot astra dot ph>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:25:13 +0000
- Subject: Re: ln, ls or readline problem?
> $ 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.
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Eric Blake
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