Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/01/14/13:14:55
The pathing routines have been rewritten. Either download a snapshot or buy
the CD version to get these changes. //c/ is nolonger what happens. Report
your bug against what is current please.
Earnie.
--- Peter Cordes <peter AT Cordes DOT Phys DOT Dal DOT Ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Bob McGowan wrote:
>
> > Peter,
> >
> > I don't think this can qualify as a bug. Though relative paths don't
> > really make sense in either the DOS/Windows world or the UNIX world, you
> > can change your path to include them. I think this is true also on
> > DOS/Windows, with the added issue of drives and their current directory
> > concepts. This means for DOS I could have a directory with no drive
> > letter, so it is only valid when the drive it is on is current.
>
> I'd agree with that, except that I think it is a bug because there
> is no way //cfoo can be considered correct. Maybe cygwin (or bash,
> whichever one is doing the dos->unix style path translation) should
> translate c:foo to a simple relative PATH of foo, dropping the drive
> letter. This is right sometimes, and avoids putting a bogus UNC name in
> the PATH. Even better would be to print a warning before doing this, so
> the user could fix their (probably typo'd) DOS path.
>
> > Do you have any control over the local computer you are running bash
> > on? You may be able to effect some repair in the Control
> > Panel->System's environment tab. If not, you should have complete
> > control over your personal setup of Cygwin and should be able to either
> > set the PATH exactly as you like in your .profile or .bashrc (i.e. don't
> > put a $PATH on the right side), or even run the existing DOS/Windows
> > path through sed or awk to munge it up the way you need it.
>
> Luckily, the CS help desk listens to bug reports, and fixed their typo in
> the DOS path. :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> #define X(x,y) x##y
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> Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter AT cordes DOT phys. , dal.ca)
>
> "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
> Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
> my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
>
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