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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:39:29 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Thomas Wolff!

>> 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...)
> (Not sure whether this case is covered by further arguments in this thread)

Only if it's a Cygwin symlink.
Which I'm avoiding in my daily work, since NTFS now offers the same
functionality.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 15.01.2013, <23:38>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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