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bug in .. handling


Cygwin is taking too much liberty when resolving paths with .. in them. I've tested this with both 1.5.14 and the 20050408 snapshot. POSIX requires that the pathname before the .. exist, and if it is a symlink, that it is resolved, before going to the parent directory. For example:

$ cd /tmp/example
$ ls
$ mkdir -p a/b
$ ln -s a/b b
$ touch a/c a/b/d
$ ls b
d
$ ls b/..       # bug - should list contents of a, not .
a  b
$ ls a
b  c
$ ls none/..    # bug - should fail with ENOENT
a  b
$ ln -s e e
$ readlink -v e/none
readlink: e/foo: Too many levels of symbolic links
$ ls e/..       # bug - should fail with ELOOP
a  b  e

Basically, cygwin is blindly collapsing dir/.. into nothing, without first verifying dir, in violation of POSIX.

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Someday, I might put a cute statement here.

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net


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