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Subject: Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work
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On Feb  1 19:37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Cygwin developers,
> 
> The following fails for me (and web and list search haven't been helpful):
> 
> $ mkdir ...
> $ cd ...
> $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe .
> $ ./ls.exe
> bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory
> 
> Same with code compiled in this directory.
> 
> Is this a bug or by design?

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.


Corinna

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