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On Jan 14 23:14, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 14.01.2013 11:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> >...
> >
> >The first step of converting a POSIX path to a Windows path is to
> >normalize the path.  "." and ".." components are simply dropped:
> >
> >   "a/b/./c"  -> "a\b\c"
> >   "a/b/../c" -> "a\c"
> which isn't correct already (even if everything exists) because if b
> is a symbolic link, "b/.." is *not* "." -
> (I think I came across this bug a few times already without really
> noticing it as a bug, having taken it as some spurious glitch...)

Yes, that's a known downside.


Corinna

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