From: csoelle@sghms.ac.uk (Christian Soeller) Subject: Re: cd problems with //x paths 15 May 1997 14:10:57 -0700 Sender: mail@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <5067wlrvf8.fsf.cygnus.gnu-win32@mbcsg1.sghms.ac.uk> References: <97May14.091002pdt.35713-1@gateway.fluke.com> Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: Warren Jones's message of Wed, 14 May 1997 09:12:41 -0700 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.10/Emacs 19.30 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Warren Jones writes: > > Has anyone else noticed that bash won't let you "cd .." when you're > in a directory like "//x/subdir" ? > > //d/work [65] pwd > //d/work B17.1 (and apparently b18 as well) seemed to have a problem to read the root directory on any disk (related to a bug in one of the readdir, etc routines ?). This seems to be related to the fact that you can't change up to the root directory (//d, //c, /) with a 'cd ..'. Christian - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".