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Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work


On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> On Feb ?1 19:37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Hello Cygwin developers,
>>
>> The following fails for me (and web and list search haven't been helpful):
>>
>> $ mkdir ...
>> $ cd ...
>> $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe .
>> $ ./ls.exe
>> bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory
>>
>> Same with code compiled in this directory.
>>
>> Is this a bug or by design?
>
> Works fine for me:
>
> ?$ uname -a
> ?CYGWIN_NT-6.1 vmbert7 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
> ?$ cd tmp
> ?$ mkdir ...
> ?$ cd ...
> ?$ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe .
> ?$ ./ls
> ?ls.exe
>
> I tried on NTFS, Samba and NFS.
>
>
> Corinna
>

not working also here:

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.8s(0.235/5/3) 20110130 23:04:08 i686 Cygwin

$ ./ls.exe
bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory

$ ./ls
bash: ./ls: No such file or directory

$ ls -l
total 128
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Marco Administrators 129550 Feb  2 20:55 ls.exe


Marco

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