File name resolution ...

Sergey Okhapkin sos@prospect.com.ru
Wed Jul 23 15:55:00 GMT 1997


Andy Bianchi wrote:
> Looking at the Configure script it appeared to be trying to
> do mkdir ../.config which failed.
> 
> When I tried to do this manually it also failed!!
> 
> In fact ls ../ didn't work!  If, however I do ls ../ from 
> the dos prompt it works fine.
> 
> Is there some problem with file name resolution/globbing 
> when running in 'UNIX' land??
> 
> I did a trace of ls (STRACE=5) and there is a line:
> 
> \\.\d:\gnuwin32\b18\.\u:\gnu\perl\cygnus\perl5.004_01\ =
>  conv_to_win32_path (../)
> 
> Which to me looks very strange, ../ should be 
> u:\gnu\perl\cygnus\perl5.004_01\ I would have thought.
> 

I just tried "ls ../" from bash prompt - all is ok. Probably, I've fixed this problem while fixing the other one :-)

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