Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/09/02/17:18:40
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:13:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 09/02/2010 11:45 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>> I don't quite understand this behavior:
>>
>> $ ls C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe
>> C:\tools\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe
>> $ C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe
>> bash: C:\tools\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe: command not found
>>
>> In particular, why is it that bash does not understand that Windows
>> pathname when it is used as a command argument, even though bash and
>> Cygwin clearly understand it when it is used as a command argument?
>>
>>
>> Is that behavior a bug (e.g., does bash try to judge whether the command
>> is an absolute vs. relative pathname without either first converting to
>> a Unix-style pathname or otherwise recognizing Windows-style pathname)?
>
>You're not the first to notice this, but it's also not the highest
>priority on my list to look into, because we already recommend using
>POSIX style paths in the first place.
>
>> Or is it some known irregularity (resulting from trying to handle both
>> Windows- and Unix-style pathnames) that couldn't be resolved?
>
>Oh, I'm sure that bash could be patched to be smarter about DOS-style
>pathnames. But no one has been bothered by it enough to write a patch yet.
And, trying hard to make MS-DOS stuff work is sorta counter to the
whole reason for Cygwin.
cgf
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