X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47C240B6.5020400@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:14:46 -0800 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygcheck -f ... misleading as to file ownership & no relative paths References: <493595 DOT 26936 DOT qm AT web25002 DOT mail DOT ukl DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <493595.26936.qm@web25002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Marco Atzeri wrote: > /usr/share/doc/bash-3.2.33 > $ cygcheck -f $PWD/README > bash-3.2.33-18 > (Right answer) === I guess I look at the "$PWD" as something that shouldn't be necessary for the user to type, since having to put "$PWD" before a filename isn't how the standard POSIX utils (cp, cat, ls, etc...) generally work. Just seemed particularly un-unix like... -linda -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/