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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:41:06 -0400
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Subject: Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning
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On Monday, April 20, 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It isn't really erroneous. =C2=A0Something (awk) is trying to open a file=
name
> with that includes backslashes, so cygwin1.dll thinks that it is trying
> to open a DOS path.

Except it looks like, from what's pasted above, that it's actually a
non-filename backslash that's triggering it - the backslash inside an
awk pattern, in this case.  It's seeing the regex /^\s/ and
recommending that it be replaced with /^/s/.  Clearly the trigger is
overzealous...

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