Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/07/17:05:32
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:25:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:08:05AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>>According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM:
>>>>Which Bash bug is that?
>>>
>>> Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir("//") is
>>> currently no different from chdir("/")'.
>>
>>Is that a bug in bash or in cygwin, though? The comments for cygwin
>>bash-2.05b-17 mention that a patch from Corinna Vinschen was applied to
>>avoid turning '/' into '//' when converting/checking path.
>
>There is no need to speculate that this is a "bug". You seemed to be
>reading this thread:
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2005-q2/msg00020.html
>
>where Pierre informs that we added a workaround in cygwin for bash. If
>bash 2.05b-17 has Corinna's fix then the workaround is no longer needed.
>I will remove the workaround and see if things work ok.
The problem reported with '//' was apparently this:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00449.html
This patch apparently was dropped from later releases of bash and, so,
the problem was re-reported a few times after that, e.g.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-02/threads.html#00190
We worked around it in cygwin here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q1/msg00151.html
2.05b-17 was released for "testing" here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-11/msg00024.html
Our bash maintainer was noticed as being MIA here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-03/threads.html#00005
(the keychain maintainer was later found to be vacationing but the bash
maintainer is still missing)
I mentioned that I'd taken 2.05b-17 out of "test" here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00709.html
The bottom line is that the current version of bash seems to not produce
'//' for root so it should be ok to remove the *workaround* in cygwin.
I will remove my workaround and generate a new snapshot.
cgf
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