Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: ls .. not respecting symbolic links Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:38:46 -0800 Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3DF634B6.5090609@cotagesoft.com> References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D0BA9CD@exchange.timesys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-165-207-59.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039545517 10071 64.165.207.59 (10 Dec 2002 18:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:38:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D0BA9CD@exchange.timesys.com> Robb, Sam wrote: > I see the same behavior under Linux, so the question is: > is this a bash bug, or expected behavior? Expected behavior. This has been a well-known feature of symlinks - the kernel-level APIs can only follow physical paths, not logical paths. *Some shells* have explicit code to handle "cd" (only) by allowing you to cd .. up a logical path. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/