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 Message-ID: <008701c2cbd5$e8d12b50$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Norton Allen" , "Elfyn McBratney" Cc: , References: <200302032241.RAA19340@bottesini.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:45:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Norton Allen wrote: > Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> >>> Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or >>> of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not >>> complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you >>> describe, but dir " " gives an error. This is certainly >>> not how it works under other OSes. >> >> >> I'm pretty sure it's a feature of SUSv3... Or one of the other POSIXy >> standards. >> >> However I've been working for hours so my brain is fried and may be >> spewing out random recollections '-) > > FWIW, I've just tested on Linux (of some flavor) and OpenBSD, > and neither thinks ' ' is a directory. > > In any event, I'd like to figure out whether it's a bug or > a feature under Cygwin so I can move forward. It's a bug/feature in Windows. Trying to manipulate such a directory in an ordinary cmd shell or in explorer produces spurious error messages and/or silent failiures. I.e. it falls into the same category as 'aux' and 'foo...' - file names which Windows simply won't do. Max. -- 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/