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

Wed Feb 2 20:51:00 GMT 2011

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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
>
not working also here:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.8s(0.235/5/3) 20110130 23:04:08 i686 Cygwin
$ ./ls.exe
bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory
$ ./ls
bash: ./ls: No such file or directory
$ ls -l
total 128
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Marco Administrators 129550 Feb 2 20:55 ls.exe
Marco
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