From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: B19.1: bug using 'cd' in sh.exe 27 Aug 1998 13:09:25 -0700 Message-ID: <19980827123834.26656.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send102.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, Eric Holter ---Eric Holter wrote: > > hello, > i found that since bash.exe spawns sh.exe when one shell script calls > another, baffeling behavior results when sh.exe behaves differently from > bash.exe. in one case, i found that bash.exe can handle doing 'cd > d:/src' but sh.exe cannot handle this syntax. instead, you must do 'cd > //d/src' or something similar. mv sh.exe ash.exe cp bash.exe sh.exe > > futhermore, if you are currently in a directory like '//d/src', and you > try typing 'cd //d' from the bash.exe command prompt, you find that you > didn't really change directories at all after the 'cd' command. > astoundingly, doing 'pwd' says '//d', but doing an 'ls' reveals that you > are actually still in '//d/src'. Well, this is what MSDOS would do, isn't it? Although, I do consider it a bug in the filesystem emulation. Work around: Do one or both: mount -b d:/ /d mount -b d:/src /src == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".