DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:references:message-id:date:from:reply-to
	:subject:to:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=FJybB9XY1GxBuJ8q
	8wwlKNgTCm4nbopNFcjpzu8bRR0/+0HaZpa45SWqmZJFmfksum7amZqawVHaVfBJ
	ti06L+qabVkk1EPWRnNAQ6/NcqEifHUDOiu3rnoKRf6eBdDqhjgfJql13Xzy0na6
	p+xlymHJSF30EJDo7yQaIwH4SRg=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <1380557054.49989.YahooMailNeo@web121506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1380557664.98433.YahooMailNeo@web121505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:14:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wayne Johnson <wdtj@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Wayne Johnson <wdtj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How does Cygwin determine PWD
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
In-Reply-To: <1380557054.49989.YahooMailNeo@web121506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I am upgrading some of our scripts to use the latest version of Cygwin bash et. al. and run into an interesting problem that I'm having trouble explaining.


I have put bash, pwd, etc. into a directory called support_tools, and have a batch file that does a cd to the support_tools directory and then runs bash in order to capture some information.  

In the old version of bash (3.2.49(22)) when we run bash, pwd returns the proper cygwinified path, like C:\Program Files (x86)\install_dir\support_tools.

Under the new bash (4.1.10(4)), when I do pwd I get /support_tools.

How does bash (or in this case probably one of the cygwin libraries) determine the current directory when you start it up?


--- 
There are two kinds of people: Those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then,  have it your way." --C.S. Lewis 

--
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