X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F12A372@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local> <46D566F8.6020801@byu.net> Subject: RE: [bug?] Directory lister (d) doesn't properly translate drive letters Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:33:41 +0100 Message-ID: <010d01c7ea38$d6bff140$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <46D566F8.6020801@byu.net> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On 29 August 2007 13:31, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Ronald Fischer on 8/29/2007 4:57 AM: >> ~/thome $ d t:/rfischer >> /cygdrive/h/thome/t:/rfischer doesn't exist! >> ~/thome $ >> >> While ls seems to understand the notion of t:, d does not. > > Not necessarily a bug. Using drive letter notation in cygwin is asking > for problems, you should instead use /cygdrive/t. The fact that it works > for some applications is happenstance, not design. Well, any application that just passes it's argv[] parameters directly to (f)open will work just fine. Any app that tries to parse and perform string manipulation on them, OTOH, is going to go wrong... such as by interpreting it as a relative path to $CWD, as in this example. I'd report it upstream. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/