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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:34:54 -0500
From: Chet Ramey <chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bash builtin pwd returns Windows style names
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> > Try doing a "cd c:/tmp" or something similar.  Bash will dutifully report
> > that you are in the c:/tmp directory at that point.
> 
> Ok. That's a bash problem.  It doesn't recognize c: as a drive but as
> the beginning of a relative path.
> 
> This is weird since bash has special handling for drive letters under
> Cygwin in lib/sh/pathcanon.c, function sh_canonpath().  For some reason
> it just doesn't work...
> 
> Chet?  Do you have an idea how to solve that?

Start looking at it with a debugger.

The bash function absolute_pathname() should report that c:/tmp is absolute.
If it succeeds, set a breakpoint in change_to_directory() and see what it's
doing.

I'm not on the cygwin mailing list, and can't provide any debugging
assistance right now, so contact me directly if you have more questions.

Chet

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet )

Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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