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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:00:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Cygwin isn't scanning command lines looking for backslashes to scold you
> about.

Glad to hear it

> =C2=A0The line in question was somehow used as an argument to open()
> or stat() or access() or some other function which takes a filename
> argument.

Got it.   So the bug is not in Cygwin, but in some shell function in
the completion setup, which is passing an awk program incorrectly,
causing awk to treat the program text as a filename.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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