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Date: | Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:41:06 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning |
From: | "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com> |
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On Monday, April 20, 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: > It isn't really erroneous. =C2=A0Something (awk) is trying to open a file= name > with that includes backslashes, so cygwin1.dll thinks that it is trying > to open a DOS path. Except it looks like, from what's pasted above, that it's actually a non-filename backslash that's triggering it - the backslash inside an awk pattern, in this case. It's seeing the regex /^\s/ and recommending that it be replaced with /^/s/. Clearly the trigger is overzealous... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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