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Warren Young wrote:
> Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> Would it make you happier if bash didn't accept DOS style drive letters 
> at all?  Then it would be consistent, and there would be no opportunity 
> for confusion.
> 
> The alternative is to do a lot of work across multiple apps.  You name 
> three, but if you think you're done with just that, you're in error. 
> Down that path, you end up modifying all apps distributed with Cygwin to 
> support DOS style paths.  Ick cubed, dude.

I thought such support was actually in Cygwin itself? And bash just 
"stupidly" does a chdir("c:")?

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