X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: Revised: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:02:59 -0500 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <17370db50608010815ma1a27bfoac531286ad10d342@mail.gmail.com> <20060801155413.GA26030@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <44CF8CD2.8070100@etr-usa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) In-Reply-To: <44CF8CD2.8070100@etr-usa.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Warren Young wrote: > Andrew Schulman wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0600, Monte Riding wrote: >>>> I have an issue when trying to run ls in the root of my C: drive >>>> that's cropped up recently, not sure what's happened - >>> Morale of the story: Use POSIX paths, i.e. "cd /cygdrive/c". >> >> OK, but mightn't it be considered a bug that Cygwin is being >> inconsistent in >> its treatment of non-POSIX paths? > > Would it make you happier if bash didn't accept DOS style drive letters > at all? Then it would be consistent, and there would be no opportunity > for confusion. > > The alternative is to do a lot of work across multiple apps. You name > three, but if you think you're done with just that, you're in error. > Down that path, you end up modifying all apps distributed with Cygwin to > support DOS style paths. Ick cubed, dude. I thought such support was actually in Cygwin itself? And bash just "stupidly" does a chdir("c:")? -- Matthew This is not the list you're looking for. -- Perversion of Obi Wan -- 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/