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Re: cd problems with //x paths


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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