fseek does not fail when input ".." as filename.

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I check the return value of fseek when the input filename is ".." and on Linux it returns -1, but on Cygwin it returns 0! I know that ".." is technically a directory. Can anyone give me some advice on how to catch this as an error?

Oh - the reason why the input file is ".." is because the Windows filepath uses the backslashes so I think they are seen as escape characters, so ..\..\bin\filename.txt only becomes ".." through my regex parser.

ret = fseek( fp, 0L, SEEK_END ); 
if ( ret == -1 )
{
    printf( "unable to open input file\n" );
    fclose( fp );
    return -1;
}