Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "David M. Karr" , Subject: RE: Strange PWD result from "Cwd::chdir y:/dir" Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:10:03 +0300 Message-ID: <000001c0812e$71044d80$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal > [POPCORN;] chdirtest y:/java > PWD[/cygdrive/d/dmk/java] > dir[y:/java] > PWD[/cygdrive/d/dmk/java/y:/java] ... > The second attempt is changing to the directory "y:/java". The > directory contents are correct, but the PWD value is screwy. Is it > supposed to look like this, or is there something wrong here? > No, it is not supposed, yes, something wrong. It is a Perl bug. It does not recognize x:/foo as an absolute path and tries to concatenate is with cwd. The same happens with some other programs. -andrej -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple