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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 05:10:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boydNOREPLY AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: RE: Weird path duplication for shell scripts?
To: Jon Leichter <jon AT symas DOT com>, "David O'Riva" <oriva AT agames DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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Relative paths are a known problem for Cygwin b20.1.  The pathing coding has
changed since and the Cygwin v1 CD and the current snapshots have this
resolved.

Earnie.
--- Jon Leichter <jon AT symas DOT com> wrote:
> I saw this EXACT same problem when I 'upgraded' to the Jan 15, 1999 Cygwin
> DLL. I didn't see it right away. It just happened one day, after I had been
> using the new DLL for a couple of days. I tried reverting back to the Dec
> 1998
> Cygwin DLL, and the problem went away.
> 
> I wonder if anyone has more insight on this.
> 
> Jon Leichter
> jon AT symas DOT com
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of David O'Riva
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 8:38 AM
> > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject: Weird path duplication for shell scripts?
> >
> >
> > Cygwin b20.1, Windows NT sp4
> >
> > While building man, I ran into this odd problem:  Executing a shell
> > script with an explicit relative path causes duplication of the path
> > section, resulting in the script failing.  Example:
> >
> > [assumes a subdirectory "x" containing a shell script "scr"]
> > bash$ x/scr
> > x/x/scr: Can't open x/x/scr
> > bash$
> >
> > STRACE confirms this:
> > [...]
> > 15746  644741 [main] sh 1022 dll_crt0_1: Application CYGWIN version:
> > 20.1, api: 0.0
> > 16564  661305 [main] sh 1022 dll_crt0_1: CYGWIN DLL version: 21.0, api:
> > 0.8
> > 16610  677915 [main] sh 1022 build_argv: argv[0] = '/usr/bin/sh.exe'
> > 16627  694542 [main] sh 1022 build_argv: argv[1] = 'x/x/scr'
> > 16787  711329 [main] sh 1022 build_argv: argv[2] = '(null)'
> > 16552  727881 [main] sh 1022 DllList::initAll: call to DllList::initAll
> > 16658  744539 [main] sh 1022 dll_crt0_1: user_data->main 0x40105C
> > 17111  761650 [main] sh 1022 _open: open (x/x/scr, 0x0)
> > [...]
> >
> > Help??  Sorry if this has been addressed before, couldn't find a thing
> > in the archives or the FAQ...
> >
> > --
> > -dave        _________________________
> > ------------/      David O'Riva       \--------------
> > 408-        | Staff Software Engineer | oriva@
> >  473-9413   |    Atari Games, Inc.    |   agames.com
> >             \_________________________/
> >
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