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Date:  Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:24:36 -0400
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> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0600, Monte Riding wrote:
> >I have an issue when trying to run ls in the root of my C: drive
> >that's cropped up recently, not sure what's happened -
> 
> Morale of the story:  Use POSIX paths, i.e. "cd /cygdrive/c".

OK, but mightn't it be considered a bug that Cygwin is being inconsistent in
its treatment of non-POSIX paths?  The CWD is stored as C:.  bash then
presents it (and apparently sees it) as /cygdrive/c.  ls OTOH apparently
sees it as C:, which it can't properly interpret.  I'm not sure who's at
fault (Cygwin DLL, bash, or ls), but something is getting garbled in
translation.

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