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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:06:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: Vinay Kumar <kvinay AT denver DOT india DOT mentorg DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: symboilc link does not expand if followed by /..
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Hi all,
    I found a problem with symbolic link expansion in cygwin. Symbolic
link does not expand properly if it is followed by /.. . To see it at
your place please do the following.
cd /tmp
mkdir dir1
mkdir dir2
touch dir1/1.c
cd dir2
ln -s ../dir1 symlink

if we do ls symlink it gives 1.c as expected.
But if we do ls symlink/.. then it list contents of present directory.

@/tmp/dir2
$ ls symlink
1.c

@/tmp/dir2
$ ls symlink/..
symlink

I think it should list contents of /tmp directory.
Could somebody throw some light over it.

regards
Vinay


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