symboilc link does not expand if followed by /..
Vinay Kumar
kvinay@denver.india.mentorg.com
Tue Jul 13 14:34:00 GMT 2004
Hi all,
I found a problem with symbolic link expansion in cygwin. Symbolic
link does not expand properly if it is followed by /.. . To see it at
your place please do the following.
cd /tmp
mkdir dir1
mkdir dir2
touch dir1/1.c
cd dir2
ln -s ../dir1 symlink
if we do ls symlink it gives 1.c as expected.
But if we do ls symlink/.. then it list contents of present directory.
@/tmp/dir2
$ ls symlink
1.c
@/tmp/dir2
$ ls symlink/..
symlink
I think it should list contents of /tmp directory.
Could somebody throw some light over it.
regards
Vinay
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