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Hi Andrey, Am 08.02.2017 um 11:54 schrieb Andrey Repin:
I don't know what __DIR__ is supposed to mean in PHP. Anyway, handling ".." is not predictable even within Linux/Cygwin, you could see something like:Greetings, Thomas Wolff!Am 07.02.2017 um 16:30 schrieb Andrey Repin:Greetings, Roger Qiu!I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an absolute windows path. ...".." is a special path, that can't be safely converted.How is the special meaning of ".." so much different in Windows than in Cygwin/Linux/POSIX that it could not be mapped? Things like dir .., cd .., type ..\sub\file all work comparably.Comparable? May be. Predictable? https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73797
> ls dir1/file dir1/file > cd dir2 > ls ../dir1/file No such file or directory (if dir2 is a link), or can have surprising effects of cd vs. cd -P.I don't see how that should exclude ".." from being transformed to ".." by cygpath -w, even if the result may be somewhat unexpected in some border cases (which I haven't seen yet).
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