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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:11:40 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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To: Victor Atkinson <atkinson AT syrres DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bash behavior change 2.05b-17 vs 2.05b-16
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According to Victor Atkinson on 7/25/2005 1:23 PM:
> I believe that it is Bash itself that is causing this behavior, and not some
> underlying Cygwin mechanism, for two reasons:  First, the backslash format
> of the command works fine under zsh, tcsh, and csh.  Second, backslashed
> paths work fine under Bash, if used as parameters to built-in commands like
> cd, or external commands like wzzip.exe.

Indeed, bash was following the letter of the law of POSIX - it invokes a
PATH search unless the first non-assignment word of the command includes a
'/'.  So in bash-3.0-10, I will patch that to also skip path searches if
the command starts with <letter>: or includes '\\'.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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