Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/15/21:04:08
Corinna Vinschen said:
> You can now list servers in the machine's domain/workgroup with
>
> $ ls //
Since some (most?) Unix shells have a "convenience feature" to reinterpret
multiple forward slashes as a single slash, could this behavior break
existing scripts or makefiles?
Also, there is a strange discrepancy in how the current (non-snapshot)
version of Cygwin 1.5.16-1 handles multiple forward slashes. I compared it's
handling of some 'ls' commands to that of bash on Linux RHAS 2.1.
When listing '/', all the following commands work the same on both systems:
1. ls /
2. ls //
3. ls ///
4. ls ////
However, when listing a directory under '/', command #2 behaves differently
in Cygwin:
1. ls /etc
2. ls //etc (* - fails only on Cygwin, see below)
3. ls ///etc
4. ls ////etc
(*) On Cygwin, command #2 returns:
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$ ls //etc
ls: //etc: No such file or directory
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Regards,
Sonam Chauhan
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Electronic Commerce, Corporate Express Australia Ltd.
Phone: +61-2-9335-0725, Email: sonam DOT chauhan AT ce DOT com DOT au
-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2005 8:07 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Please test latest snapshot
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