delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/02/13:30:13

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,SARE_FROM_PHRASE,SPF_NEUTRAL
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <cygwin_at_kosowsky_dot_org AT gmail DOT com>
MIME-version: 1.0
Message-id: <19183.9501.7117.656831@consult.pretender>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:29:48 -0500
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: [1.7] Undocumented change in accessing by dos drive letters?
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

I didn't see any documentation in the What's New/What's Changed
document saying that the following no longer works:
		 <cmd> <drive letter>:
For example:
	$ ls C:
	ls: cannot access C:: No such file or directory

This had worked fine on earlier versions.
This has broken several of my shell scripts so I am surprised it isn't
either documented (if a desired change) or fixed (if a bug).

Am I missing something?

Note using C:\\ does work.

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019