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Re: cd problems with //x paths
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cd problems with //x paths
- From: Christian Soeller <csoelle at sghms dot ac dot uk>
- Date: 15 May 1997 09:28:27 +0100
- References: <97May14.091002pdt.35713-1@gateway.fluke.com>
Warren Jones <wjones@TC.FLUKE.COM> writes:
>
> Has anyone else noticed that bash won't let you "cd .." when you're
> in a directory like "//x/subdir" ?
>
> //d/work [65] pwd
> //d/work
B17.1 (and apparently b18 as well) seemed to have a problem to read the
root directory on any disk (related to a bug in one of the readdir, etc routines
?). This seems to be related to the fact that you can't change up to the root
directory (//d, //c, /) with a 'cd ..'.
Christian
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