directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Wed Feb 2 20:56:00 GMT 2011


On 02/02/2011 01:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Works fine for me:
> 
>   $ uname -a
>   CYGWIN_NT-6.1 vmbert7 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
>   $ cd tmp
>   $ mkdir ...
>   $ cd ...
>   $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe .
>   $ ./ls
>   ls.exe
> 
> I tried on NTFS, Samba and NFS.

Difference in Windows version?

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 LOUNGE 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
$ pwd
/tmp/...
$ ls
ls.exe
$ ./ls
bash: ./ls: No such file or directory

or maybe in bash versions (since I did just upgrade bash from 3.2 to 4.1)?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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