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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb  2 13:56, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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)?

No, I'm using tcsh.  Apparently you're right, it doesn't work in
XP, but it works in W7.  Looks like Microsoft reworked the CreateProcess
call at some point.  I have an idea how this might be possible to
workaround.  Stay tuned.


Corinna

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