directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work

Wed Feb 2 20:46:00 GMT 2011

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年08月31日 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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